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Kids and Congress
via Freakonomics by (author unknown) on May 05, 2008
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Ebonya Washington, an economist at Yale, has a great paper that was just published in the American Economic Review called "Female Socialization: How Daughters Affect Their Legislator Fathers’ Voting on Women’s Issues." She looks at members in the House of Representatives and looks to see whether their voting patterns change. She provides interesting evidence that, [...]
Amazing but probably shouldn't be surprising. The more daughters Members of Congress have, the more likely they are to side with NOW issues, regardless of political party.Shared by: