The effect of daughters on partisanship
By: Dalton Conley, Emily Rauscher
Contributors: Rauscher, Emily; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15873; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15873.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "Washington (2008) finds that, controlling for total number of children, each additional daughter makes a member of Congress more likely to vote liberally and attributes this finding to socialization.  However, daughters' influence could manifest differently for elite politicians and the general citizenry, thanks to the selection gradient particular to the political process.  This study asks whether the proportion of female biological offspring affects political party identification.  Using nationally-representative data from the General Social Survey, we find that female offspring induce more conservative political identification.  We hypothesize that this results from the change in reproductive fitness strategy that daughters may evince"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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