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How will dads vote? New research suggests it may depend on whether they have a first-born daughter.
From http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2018/november/dads-politics-greenlee.html
How will dads vote?
New research suggests it may depend on whether they have a first-born daughter.
By Lawrence Goodman
Nov. 1, 2018
Dads may be more likely to vote for female political candidates if they have a daughter — but only if the daughter is their first-born child.
That's the finding of a new research paper by Jill Greenlee, associate professor of politics and women’s, gender and sexuality studies, and several colleagues at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The paper was published online on October 31 in the journal Political Behavior.
In a second paper, published in September in Public Opinion Quarterly, Greenlee's research team found that dads with daughters were more likely to support policies designed to increase gender equality — but again, only if the daughter was the first-born offspring.
Taken together, the impact of a child’s gender on her father’s politics is what the researchers call the "first-daughter effect." The effect is stronger in Democrats than Republicans.
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New research suggests it may depend on whether they have a first-born daughter.
By Lawrence Goodman
Nov. 1, 2018
Dads may be more likely to vote for female political candidates if they have a daughter — but only if the daughter is their first-born child.
That's the finding of a new research paper by Jill Greenlee, associate professor of politics and women’s, gender and sexuality studies, and several colleagues at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The paper was published online on October 31 in the journal Political Behavior.
In a second paper, published in September in Public Opinion Quarterly, Greenlee's research team found that dads with daughters were more likely to support policies designed to increase gender equality — but again, only if the daughter was the first-born offspring.
Taken together, the impact of a child’s gender on her father’s politics is what the researchers call the "first-daughter effect." The effect is stronger in Democrats than Republicans.
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