We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic model where men are richer than women, women display a higher preference for public goods, and women\u2019s disenfranchisement carries a societal cost. Men and women are matched within households which are the center of the decision process. We derive the optimal tax rate under two alternative regimes: a males-only enfranchisement regime and a universal enfranchisement regime. The latter is associated with a higher tax rate but, as industrialization raises the reward to intellectual labor relative to physical labor, women\u2019s relative wage increases, thus decreasing the difference between the tax rates. When the cost of disenfranchisement be...
Woman suffrage led to one of the greatest enfranchisements in history. Yet, women neither won the ri...
International audienceThe tax and benefit system probably affects men and women differently because ...
Previous literature has found that extending the suffrage to both females and poorer voters increase...
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic mo...
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economicmod...
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economicmod...
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic mo...
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic mo...
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic mo...
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic mo...
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic mo...
The economic literature has attributed part of the increase in government expenditure over the 20th...
The scanty economic literature has attributed to female voting part of the increase in government e...
This dissertation contains three chapters on political economy. Chapter 2 develops a game-theoretic ...
International audienceThe tax and benefit system probably affects men and women differently because ...
Woman suffrage led to one of the greatest enfranchisements in history. Yet, women neither won the ri...
International audienceThe tax and benefit system probably affects men and women differently because ...
Previous literature has found that extending the suffrage to both females and poorer voters increase...
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic mo...
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economicmod...
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economicmod...
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic mo...
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic mo...
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic mo...
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic mo...
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic mo...
The economic literature has attributed part of the increase in government expenditure over the 20th...
The scanty economic literature has attributed to female voting part of the increase in government e...
This dissertation contains three chapters on political economy. Chapter 2 develops a game-theoretic ...
International audienceThe tax and benefit system probably affects men and women differently because ...
Woman suffrage led to one of the greatest enfranchisements in history. Yet, women neither won the ri...
International audienceThe tax and benefit system probably affects men and women differently because ...
Previous literature has found that extending the suffrage to both females and poorer voters increase...