{"id":12204,"date":"2010-04-05T14:24:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T19:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=12204"},"modified":"2010-04-05T14:25:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T19:25:50","slug":"do-daughters-make-you-more-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/do-daughters-make-you-more-conservative\/","title":{"rendered":"Do daughters make you more conservative?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12205\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12205\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/487657334_037bc5b8db.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-12205\" title=\"487657334_037bc5b8db\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/487657334_037bc5b8db-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Photo belonging to James Neeley via Flicker\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo belonging to James Neeley via Flicker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tyler Cowan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2010\/04\/daughters-make-you-more-conservative.html\">revisits the topic<\/a> in a post today (HT: Sheldon). I vaguely remember someone in the bloggernacle posting on this in years passed, but my cursory search didn&#8217;t turn up much. So, as I&#8217;m curious what others make of the research, I thought I&#8217;d throw it out to the wolves again. Cowan quotes a <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.nber.org\/papers\/w15873#fromrss\">new article<\/a> that states in relevant part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Washington (2008) finds that, controlling for total number of  children, each additional daughter makes a member of Congress more  likely to vote liberally and attributes this finding to socialization.  However, daughters\u2019 influence could manifest differently for elite  politicians and the general citizenry, thanks to the selection gradient  particular to the political process. This study asks whether the  proportion of female biological offspring affects political party  identification. Using nationally-representative data from the General  Social Survey, we find that female offspring induce more conservative  political identification. We hypothesize that this results from the  change in reproductive fitness strategy that daughters may evince.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Perhaps this plea is laughably in vain, but let&#8217;s avoid the banal partisan tit-for-tat).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Cowan revisits the topic in a post today (HT: Sheldon). I vaguely remember someone in the bloggernacle posting on this in years passed, but my cursory search didn&#8217;t turn up much. So, as I&#8217;m curious what others make of the research, I thought I&#8217;d throw it out to the wolves again. Cowan quotes a new article that states in relevant part: Washington (2008) finds that, controlling for total number of children, each additional daughter makes a member of Congress more likely to vote liberally and attributes this finding to socialization. However, daughters\u2019 influence could manifest differently for elite politicians and the general citizenry, thanks to the selection gradient particular to the political process. This study asks whether the proportion of female biological offspring affects political party identification. Using nationally-representative data from the General Social Survey, we find that female offspring induce more conservative political identification. We hypothesize that this results from the change in reproductive fitness strategy that daughters may evince. (Perhaps this plea is laughably in vain, but let&#8217;s avoid the banal partisan tit-for-tat).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":12205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-12204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-politics","tag-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/487657334_037bc5b8db.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12207,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12204\/revisions\/12207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}