Women as Policy Makers and Donors: Female Legislators and Foreign Aid

Hicks, Daniel L.; Hicks, Joan; Maldonado, Beatriz

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“…However, the coefficient on female parliament, i.e., the share of women in national parliaments, is positive and statistically significant at least at the five-percent level-in line with the findings in Hicks et al (2014). A one-percent increase in the share of female deputies in parliament raises ODA commitments by 0.7 percent and ODA disbursements by 0.4 percent on average (columns 3 and 4).…”

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“…While Breuning (2001), Hicks et al (2014), and Lu and Breuning (2014) find that stronger female representation in parliament increases aid budgets, this finding is not confirmed by empirical evidence in Lundsgaarde, Breunig and Prakash (2007). 14 Analyzing US congressional roll call votes, OlsenTelles (2013) finds that female legislators are less likely to support military aid as expected, but-in contrast to expectations-they do not appear to be more supportive of economic aid.…”

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“…Turning to the specific allocation of aid, Hicks et al (2014) find strong evidence of gender differences arising from larger female representation in parliaments: the level of the flows going to humanitarian efforts, education, health and social capital projects all appear to increase with stronger representation of women in national parliaments. Moreover, a higher share of women in a national parliament is also associated with more aid flowing to LDCs.…”

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Do Development Minister Characteristics Affect Aid Giving?

Fuchs

Richert

2015

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Abstract:Over 300 government members have had the main responsibility for international development cooperation in 23 member countries of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee since the organization started reporting detailed Official Development Assistance (ODA) data in 1967.Understanding their role in foreign aid giving is crucial since their decisions might directly impact aid effectiveness and thus economic development on the ground. Our study examines whether development ministers' personal characteristics influence aid budgets and aid quality. To this end, we create a novel database on development ministers' gender, political ideology, prior professional experience in development cooperation, education in economics, and time in office over the 1967-2012 period. Results from fixed-effects panel regressions show that some of the personal characteristics of development ministers matter. Most notably, we find that more experienced ministers with respect to their time in office obtain larger aid budgets. Moreover, there is evidence that female ministers as well as officeholders with prior professional experience in development cooperation and a longer time in office provide higher-quality ODA.JEL classification: D78, F35, H11, O19

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Do Development Minister Characteristics Affect Aid Giving?

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Richert

2015

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“…Santacreu‐Vasut et al . () present evidence that it is negatively associated with the adoption of political gender quotas, and also affects the efficacy of such quotas (Santacreu‐Vasut et al ., ; Hicks et al ., ). Most significantly perhaps, grammatical gender has an influence on gender‐discriminatory attitudes.…”

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Linguistic Structures and Economic Outcomes

Weber

Mavisakalyan

2017

Journal of Economic Surveys

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Linguistic structures have recently started to attract attention from economists as determinants of economic phenomena. This paper provides the first comprehensive review of this nascent literature and its achievements so far. First, we explore the complex connections between language, culture, thought and behaviour. Then, we summarize the empirical evidence on the relationship between linguistic structures and economic and social outcomes. We follow up with a discussion of data, empirical design and identification. The paper concludes by discussing implications for future research and policy.

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“…Nye (2004) argues that US ideas and values exported "in the minds of more than half a million foreign students" studying every year in the United States and then returning to their home countries, will reach the elites in power in many of these sending countries and positively affect the bilateral relations. Since some elites themselves are educated in a donor country, they themselves may take-on spreading these values in the home country such as democracy (Mercier 2016, Gift andKrcmaric 2015) Moreover, the literature shows that country's fiscal, economic and political performance (Hicks, Hicks andMaldonado 2016, Hayo andNeumeier, 2014, Dreher and Jensen 2013, Jones and Olken 2005) depends on certain characteristics and background of leaders. Moreover, it shows that the field of study may also influence shaping of leader's economic ideology (Fischer, et al 2017), and leaders that studied in western democracies are more likely to bring democratic values back home (Mercier 2016, Gift andKrcmaric 2015).…”

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US aid, US educated leaders and economic ideology

Minasyan

2018

European Journal of Political Economy

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The Unites States (US) openly promotes its economic ideology of free-markets through foreign aid. It also regards foreign education in the US as a way of spreading its own ideas and values among the elite in developing countries. US educated aid recipient country leaders may thus receive more US aid, if they share both the cultural values and economic ideology of the US. I test this hypothesis using a panel fixed-effects regression model for 896 leaders and 143 countries over the period from 1981 to 2010. I address self-and donor-selection biases by including leader fixed effects in the regression analysis, in addition to the country and year fixed effects. In result, I find that, on average, the US allocates 30 percent more bilateral aid to US educated leaders with right-leaning political beliefs compared to those with left-leaning political beliefs. Heterogeneity analysis reveals that these findings are driven by right-leaning US leadership.

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Women as Policy Makers and Donors: Female Legislators and Foreign Aid

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Do Development Minister Characteristics Affect Aid Giving?

Do Development Minister Characteristics Affect Aid Giving?

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