Women's Suffrage and Children's Education

We thank Doug Miller, Marianne Page, Hilary Hoynes, Scott Carrell, and Peter Lindert for many helpful conversations and support. We are also grateful for the input that we received from Marcella Alsan, Celeste Carruthers, Bill Collins, Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Elizabeth Cascio, Claudia Goldin, Jonathan Homola, JaeWook Jung, Erzo Luttmer, Paco Martorell, Bhash Mazumder, Chris Meissner, Claudia Olivetti, Giovanni Peri, Sarah Reber, Shu Shen, Dawn Teele, Marianne Wanamaker, and seminar participants at the APSA Annual Meeting, the Chicago Fed, the Economic Demography Workshop, the Historical Women's Movement Workshop at UPenn, NBER DAE Summer Institute, SoCCAM, the Stata Texas Empirical Microeconomics Conference, UC Davis, UC Berkeley Political Economy Seminar, the University of Oklahoma, and Wellesley College. We benefited from data made publicly available by Daniel Aaronson and Bhash Mazumder; Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and David Lyle; Claudia Goldin; Lawrence Kenny; and Adriana Lleras-Muney. Our work was supported by a generous grant from the All-UC History Group, a Sam Taylor Fellowship, and a National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship. An earlier version of this paper circulated under the titles "Who Benefited from Women's Suffrage?" and "Women's Enfranchisement and Children's Education: The Long-Run Impact of the U.S. Suffrage Movement." All errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• August 15, 2018