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Title	Replication Data for: Peace Above the Glass Ceiling: The Historical Relationship between Female Political Empowerment and Civil Conflict

Identifier	https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/9GHSHP

Creator	Dahlum, Sirianne Wig, Tore

Publisher	Harvard Dataverse

Description	We investigate whether female political empowerment is conducive to civil peace, drawing on global data on female political empowerment over a 200-year period, from the Varieties of Democracy database. We augment previous research by expanding the temporal scope, looking at a novel inventory of female political empowerment measures, attending to reverse-causality and omitted variable issues, and separating between relevant causal mechanisms. We find a strong link between female political empowerment and civil peace, which is particularly pronounced in the twentieth century. We find evidence that this relationship is driven both by women’s political participation—particularly the bottom-up political participation of women, e.g., in civil society—and the culture that conduces it. This is the strongest evidence to date that there is a robust link between female political empowerment and civil peace, stemming from both institutional and cultural mechanisms.

Subject	Social Sciences Female Empowerment, Civil War, Political Participation

Contributor	Prins, Brandon

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