FIGURE II.
Municipal Public Spending and Women’s Suffrage Law Timing
Municipal public finance data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census’ Statistics of Cities Having a Population of Over 30,000 and Financial Statistics of Cities Having a Population of Over 30,000. Residual means shown relative to the year of women’s suffrage laws in each state (year 0) obtained by estimating equation 1 without the suffrage dummy variable and with city rather than state fixed effects.