• DOI:10.1007/S11293-008-9133-Y
• Corpus ID: 154240861

An Inquiry into the Contemporary Differential between Female and Male Voter Turnouts

@article{Cebula2008AnII,
  title={An Inquiry into the Contemporary Differential between Female and Male Voter Turnouts},
  author={Richard J. Cebula and Holly Meads},
  journal={Atlantic Economic Journal},
  year={2008},
  volume={36},
  pages={301-313},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:154240861}
}

• R. Cebula, H. Meads
• Published 24 July 2008
• Political Science
• Atlantic Economic Journal

This study seeks to identify contemporary factors that systematically explain the difference in the ratio of the female-to-male voter participation rates, FVPR/MVPR, and the difference between the female and male voter participation rate levels, FVPR−MVPR, in the U.S. Using state-level data form the 2004 Presidential election, it is found that both FVPR/MVPR and FVPR−MVPR are an increasing function of the gender-specific unemployment rates, median earnings, educational attainment levels… 

This study seeks to identify contemporary factors that systematically explain the difference in the ratio of the female-to-male voter participation rates, FVPR/MVPR, and the difference between the female and male voter participation rate levels, FVPR−MVPR, in the U.S. Using state-level data form the 2004 Presidential election, it is found that both FVPR/MVPR and FVPR−MVPR are an increasing function of the gender-specific unemployment rates, median earnings, educational attainment levels, population age 65 and over, and the presence of a female governor in the state and a decreasing function of the gender-specific divorce rates.