作为决策者的政治机构中的女性
Women in Political Bodies as Policymakers
Review of Economics and Statistics · 2023 · [{"name": "Thushyanthan Baskaran", "affiliation": ["Ruhr University Bochum"]}, {"name": "Zohal Hessami", "affiliation": ["Ruhr University Bochum"]}]
中文摘要
摘要 我们以儿童照护为例，利用关于巴伐利亚地方议会选举的新手工收集数据，考察女性代表性如何影响政策制定。断点回归（RDD）估计（针对各政党最后一个议席的男女混合竞选）表明，增加一名女性议员可使公共儿童照护的扩张加速40%。我们还记录了一个重要的非线性特征：只有在女性议员较少的议会中，增加一名女性才会加速儿童照护的扩张。议会会议纪要显示，尽管女性是非关键少数群体，她们仍能在议会中发挥有效作用，因为她们改变了"对话"。
Abstract
Abstract 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 nonpivotal minority because they change “the conversation.”