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
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15983
- Klassifikation
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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
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gender composition
political selection
local councils
child care
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Baskaran, Thushyanthan
Hessami, Zohal
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2023
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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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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