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The
Political Economy of Gender:
Explaining Cross National
Variation in Household Bargaining,
Divorce and the Gender Voting Gap.
By
Torben Iverson
Department of Government
Harvard University
and
Frances
RosenbluthTorben Iverson
Department
of Political Science
Yale
University
August
2002
Abstract:
Mainstream political economy has tended to treat the
family as a unit when examining the distributional consequences of labor market
institutions and of public policy. In a world with high divorce rates, we argue
that this simplification is more likely to obscure than to instruct. We find that
labor market opportunities for women affect women's bargaining power within the
family and as a result, can explain much of the cross country variation in the
household division of labor, patterns of divorce, and political preferences.
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