How Do Female Spouses’ Political Interests Affect Male Spouses’ Views About a Women’s Issue?

Eiji Yamamura ()

Atlantic Economic Journal, 2010, vol. 38, issue 3, 359-370

Abstract: This paper explores how the degree of female spouses’ political interest affects male spouses’ views about women’s empowerment using individual level data in Japan. Controlling for unobserved area-specific fixed effects, results show that males are likely to consider women’s empowerment important if their spouses are interested in politics. This spouse effect is observed for conservative males but not for progressive-neutral males. Results were unchanged when the endogeneity bias caused by spouses’ political interests were controlled for. These findings suggest that female family members’ political interests and views play an important role in determining male views regarding women’s issues. Copyright International Atlantic Economic Society 2010

Keywords: Spouse; Political opinion; Women’s empowerment; D72; D83; J12; J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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