Arbeitspapier

Women in Political Bodies as Policymakers

We investigate how female representation impacts policymaking using the example of child care and new hand-collected data on local council elections in Bavaria. RDD estimations (mixed-gender races for last party-specific council seats) show that an additional female councilor accelerates the expansion of public child care by 40%. We also document an important nonlinearity: an additional woman accelerates the expansion of child care only in councils with few women. Council meeting minutes reveal that women can be effective in councils despite being a non-pivotal minority because they change "the conversation".

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15983

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations: General
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Thema
gender composition
political selection
local councils
child care

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Baskaran, Thushyanthan
Hessami, Zohal
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2023

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Baskaran, Thushyanthan
  • Hessami, Zohal
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2023

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