Municipal Housekeeping: The Impact of Womenâs Suffrage on Public Education
Municipal Housekeeping: The Impact of Womenâs Suffrage on Public Education
Carruthers, Celeste K.; Wanamaker, Marianne H.
2015-10-30 00:00:00
<p>Gains in 20th century real wages and reductions in the black-white wage gap have been linked to the midcentury ascent of school quality. With a new data set uniquely appropriate to identifying the impact of female voter enfranchisement on education spending, we attribute up to one-third of the 1920â40 rise in public school expenditures to the Nineteenth Amendment. Yet the continued disenfranchisement of black Southerners meant white school gains far outpaced those for blacks. As a result, womenâs suffrage exacerbated racial inequality in education expenditures and substantially delayed relative gains in black human capital observed later in the century.</p>
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Municipal Housekeeping: The Impact of Womenâs Suffrage on Public Education
<p>Gains in 20th century real wages and reductions in the black-white wage gap have been linked to the midcentury ascent of school quality. With a new data set uniquely appropriate to identifying the impact of female voter enfranchisement on education spending, we attribute up to one-third of the 1920â40 rise in public school expenditures to the Nineteenth Amendment. Yet the continued disenfranchisement of black Southerners meant white school gains far outpaced those for blacks. As a result, womenâs suffrage exacerbated racial inequality in education expenditures and substantially delayed relative gains in black human capital observed later in the century.</p>
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Journal of Human Resources
– University of Wisconsin Press
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