The Ex-Factor: Examining the Gendered Effect of Divorce on Voter Turnout

The absence of a gendered analysis the effect marriage on voting is surprising given researchers’ cognizance heterogeneous effects range other social outcomes. In this paper, we shed new light spousal dependency by studying marital disruption, in form divorce, voter turnout. First, drawing Swedish populationwide data, use differential timing divorces relation to general elections generate more credible estimates causal divorce Second, although find that both sexes are adversely affected show much pronounced for men. Specifically, long-term almost twice as large Finally, these data mainly driven asymmetrical mobilization due higher levels turnout among women.