The Effect of Daughters on Partisanship

Dalton Conley and Emily Rauscher

No 15873, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: 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.

JEL-codes: D19 H0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-04
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Published as Conley, D. and E. Rauscher. 2013. “The Effect of Daughters on Partisanship and Social Attitudes toward Women.” Sociological Forum. 28:700-718.

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