Divorce and the Political Gender Gap
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This paper uses a quasi-experimental approach to test the hypothesis that the political gender gap is driven by rising divorce risk. We exploit a largely unexpected legal change in Britain, the White v White case, which in 2000 established a rule of parity for the split of assets upon divorce. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find that the gender gap in political preferences declined sharply for affected groups, consistent with the economic divorce-based explanation. Corresponding author: Watson at [email protected].
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