This study tackles several important unanswered questions about gender, family status, and
parliamentary representation. We use the case of the German Bundestag to explore gender …

The pioneering work of Washington in 2008 shows that legislators with daughters cast more
liberal roll call votes on women's issues. Costa and coauthors in 2019 find that this pattern …

This project develops our understanding of the representation of women's interests in
politics by considering the role that men can play in advancing the substantive …

Pregnancy and early parenthood are significant life milestones. They also affect women and
men differently. The biological marvel of pregnancy and birth and the changing social roles …

Public health interventions often involve a trade-off between improving health and protecting
individual rights. We study this trade-off in a high-stakes setting: prostitution regulations …

Violence Against Women (VAW) is a severe problem across the world. Despite its severity,
however, some countries do not even have laws to combat VAW, and others have laws in …

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is universal, with around one-third of all women aged 15
years and over having experienced violence from their partner during their lifetime (Devries …

A pioneering study by Loewen et al. made use of the Canadian legislature's newly instituted
lottery, which enabled non-cabinet Members of Parliament (MPs) to propose a bill or motion …

We examine the impact of having a daughter on the legislative behavior of members of
Congress using original biographical data from 1973 to 2015. Previous research has …

A consistent finding in industrialized democracies is that having a daughter shapes parents'
attitudes and behaviors in gender-egalitarian ways. We test whether this finding travels to a …