NYT columnist references Grant Miller's 'remarkable study'

In an op-ed about women's role in the economy, Nicholas Kristof highlights CHP/PCOR core faculty Grant Miller's work on the policy shifts that happen when women are enfranchised. Referring to Miller's "remarkable study" in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Kristof details Miller's findings that when females receive the right to vote in a country, a significant amount of new public money goes to public health programs. Further, these same nations see a sharp decrease in child mortality.

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