Women's representation and public spending

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Economic and Political Foundations of Local Tax Structures: An Empirical Investigation of the Tax Mix of Flemish Municipalities

“…Such significant effect of female representation on the local tax mix supports previous work illustrating its effects on the composition of public spending (e.g., Pande, 2003;Chattopadhyay and Duflo, 2004;Svaleryd, 2009).…”

“…Finally, the share of women in the executive body of the municipality is included. This follows a number of recent studies indicating that gender is an important indicator of policy preferences (e.g., Lott and Kenny, 1999;Edlund and Pande, 2002;Funk and Gathmann, 2008) and that female representation often significantly affects policy outcomes (e.g., Pande, 2003;Chattopadhyay and Duflo, 2004;Svaleryd, 2009). All previous work on this issue, however, looks at the effect of female representation on the size of the public sector or the composition of public spending.…”

The perfect finance minister: Whom to appoint as finance minister to balance the budget

“…They show that council members invest more in infrastructure that is directly related to the needs of their own gender. Similar results can be found in Svaleryd (2009). She studies whether women's representation in Swedish local councils affects local public expenditure structures.…”

Voters prefer more qualified mayors, but does it matter for public finances? Evidence for Germany

“…Recent studies investigated how female representation affects public finances (Svaleryd, 2009;Ferreira and Gyourko, 2011;Campa, 2011). Initially, our intention was to conduct a similar analyses here.…”