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Ebonya Washington finds quantitative evidence that having female kids causes male statesmen to vote more liberally for women’s rights — via Yale Alumni Magazine & Freakonomics
I found it underwhelming that most of the analysis surrounding this paper is concerned with the idea of an unexpected direction of influence: kids affecting parents. To me, the much more interesting theme is how ideology — which many claim is based on moral and ethical absolutes — can be educated by environment, and specifically by empathy. Maybe there is hope after all.