Correlations in everything: how daughters affect their legislative fathers

reports Ian Ayers:

Ebonya Washington, an economist at Yale, has a great paper that was just published in the American Economic Review called “Female Socialization: How Daughters Affect Their Legislator Fathers’ Voting on Women’s Issues.”

She looks at members in the House of Representatives and looks to see whether their voting patterns change. She provides interesting evidence that, “conditional on total number of children, each daughter increases a congress person’s propensity to vote liberally on reproductive rights issues.”

I'm reporting that I am a bigger feminist than ever, since my 2 daughters arrived. But alas, I have still not drunk the kool aids of "affirmative action" nor "boys and girls are the same".