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

Eiji Yamamura ()

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This paper explored 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 city size and area-specific fixed effects, results showed that males were likely to consider women’s empowerment important if their spouses were interested in politics. This spouse effect was observed for conservative males but not for progressive ones. 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.

Keywords: Spouse; political opinion; women’s empowerment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 D83 J12 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-04-24
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Journal Article: How Do Female Spouses’ Political Interests Affect Male Spouses’ Views About a Women’s Issue? (2010)
Working Paper: How Do Female Spouses’ Political Interests Affect Male Spouses’ Views About a Women’s Issue? (2009)
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