Arbeitspapier
The influence of politicians' sex on political budget cycles: An empirical analysis of Spanish municipalities
Employing a sample of Spanish municipalities from the Madrid region for the period 2010-2019, we study the influence of a politician's sex on political budget cycles (PBCs). The Madrid region is subject to a homogenous set of budget rules, which allows consistently categorising budget expenditure items as either 'mandatory' or 'non-mandatory' public services. Differentiating between four sizes of municipalities, the gender influence is studied along two dimensions: mayor's sex and share of women in government. Except for the largest municipalities, we discover significant evidence of PBC-related changes, ranging between 3% and 7% of average municipal budgets, in mandatory spending for both sexes. The impact is roughly twice as large in the long term. On average, male and female mayors tend to increase pre-electoral mandatory spending, even when the government is gender balanced. However, in the (rare) case of female-dominated governments, mayors do not appear to engage in PBC-related activities, and may even decrease mandatory spending, before an election.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics ; No. 23-2022
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
Fiscal Policy
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
State and Local Budget and Expenditures
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- Thema
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Gender
Political budget cycles
Signalling mechanism
Local politicians
Fiscal policy
Spanish municipalities
Madrid region
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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García, Israel
Hayo, Bernd
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Philipps-University Marburg, School of Business and Economics
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Marburg
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2022
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- García, Israel
- Hayo, Bernd
- Philipps-University Marburg, School of Business and Economics
Entstanden
- 2022
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