A not-so-good result of women's suffrage
I don't intend to offend any of my female readers--as noted recently, I've been married for 30 years, and I have two daughters--but as a group, women in the U.S. bear a significant part of the responsibilty for our (too) Big Government.
(By the way, Rush Limbaugh will supposedly be discussing John's research on this topic today.)
BULLETIN :: THIS JUST IN :: Women are different than men. Women want security (even false security it seems)while more men are self motivated. Thus women will respond to socialist schemes on the average more than men.
I have been knowing this for a long time.
Posted by: kyle N | June 02, 2008 at 07:22 AM
Bah.. I bet if only women were allowed to vote originally and then we opened the vote to economically subjugated men, the size of government would grow too.
Posted by: PLW | June 02, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Dear Kyle:
I think that we tried to account for opening up the vote to these "economically subjugated men" that you refer to. Please see this:
http://ssrn.com/abstract=160530
Posted by: John Lott | June 03, 2008 at 04:33 AM