Did Rosie the Riveter Send Ms. Smith to Washington?

• In Event: Women, the Workforce, and Economic Empowerment

Brief Overview

Does women's labor force participation increase women's descriptive representation? I take advantage of a plausibly exogenous instrument for women's labor force participation—county-level variation in U.S. World War II deaths—to test this argument.

Author

• Dan Pemstein, North Dakota State University-Main Campus