Unmarried Parenthood and Redistributive Politics

Lena Edlund (), Laila Haider and Rohini Pande
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Laila Haider: Columbia University,
Rohini Pande: Yale University,

Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005, vol. 3, issue 1, pages 95-119

Abstract: Political survey data for nine West European countries show that women have become increasingly left-wing compared to men, and that this trend is positively correlated with the rise of nonmarriage in these countries. This pattern is mirrored in German longitudinal data (GSOEP), where transitions out of marriage make women, but not men, significantly more left-leaning. Analysis of public spending data for high-income OECD countries (1980-1998) suggests that the political impact of nonmarriage extends to the allocation of State resources with increases in nonmarriage first reducing, and then increasing, State redistribution towards children. (JEL: H31, H42, J12, J13) Copyright (c) 2005 by the European Economic Association.

Date: 2005
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