Replication Data for: A Century of the American Woman Voter: Sex Gaps in Political Participation, Preferences, and Partisanship Since Women’s Enfranchisement
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Elizabeth Cascio, Dartmouth College; Na'ama Shenhav, Dartmouth College
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Project Citation:
Cascio, Elizabeth, and Shenhav, Na’ama. Replication Data for: A Century of the American Woman Voter: Sex Gaps in Political Participation, Preferences, and Partisanship Since Women’s Enfranchisement. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-05-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/E117331V1
Project Description
Summary:
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This year marks the centennial of the Nineteenth
Amendment, which provided American women a constitutional guarantee to the
franchise. We assemble data from a variety of sources to document and explore trends
in women’s political participation, issue preferences, and partisanship since that
time. We show that in the early years following enfranchisement, women voted at
much lower rates than men and held distinct issue preferences, despite splitting
their votes across parties similarly to men. But by the dawn of the 21st
century, women not only voted more than men, but also voted differently, systematically
favoring the Democratic party. We find that the rise in women’s relative voter turnout
largely reflects cross-cohort changes in voter participation and coincided with
increasing rates of high school completion. By contrast, women’s relative shift
toward the Democratic party permeates all cohorts and appears to owe more to
changes in how parties have defined themselves than to changes in issue
preferences. The findings suggest that a
confluence of factors have led to the unique place women currently occupy in
the American electorate, one where they are arguably capable of exerting more political
influence than ever before.
Funding Sources:
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Dartmouth College
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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voting;
voting rights;
voting behavior;
gender
JEL Classification:
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I00 Health, Education, and Welfare: General
J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
K16 Election Law
N32 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
I00 Health, Education, and Welfare: General
J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
K16 Election Law
N32 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
Geographic Coverage:
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United States (national, regional, and state)
Time Period(s):
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1900 – 2016 (Aggregate election returns and population span 1900-2016. Survey microdata on voting span correspond to 1940 to 2016 elections.)
Universe:
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United States voting-age population.
Data Type(s):
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administrative records data;
aggregate data;
observational data;
survey data
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