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Green, Donald P., Oliver Hyman-Metzger, Gaurav Sood, and Michelle A. Zee (2023). Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 1(3): 506–
A replication and extension of Washington (2008) across sixteen congresses: no daughter effect before the period she studied, and none after it.
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Washington, Ebonya L. (2008). American Economic Review, 98(1): 311–332
Conditional on the number of children, each daughter makes a US congressperson vote more liberally on women’s issues, especially reproductive rights — the sex of a child as a natural experiment.
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Interactive explainer Almond, Douglas (2006). Journal of Political Economy, 114(4): 672–712
Cohorts in utero during the 1918 influenza pandemic had lower schooling, income and health decades later — the classic “fetal origins” natural experiment.