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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.
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Cebula, R.J., Meads, H. An Inquiry into the Contemporary Differential between Female and Male Voter Turnouts. Atl Econ J 36, 301–313 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11293-008-9133-y
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