Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81935 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IWQW Discussion Papers No. 07/2013
Publisher: 
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institut für Wirtschaftspolitik und Quantitative Wirtschaftsforschung (IWQW), Nürnberg
Abstract: 
We provide empirical evidence that female mayors do not affect the expenditure allocation or size of local governments. This result is robust across a variety of regression discontinuity and standard multivariate estimations. We also examine whether elected female candidates have an increased likelihood of being reelected in a subsequent election, which is a phenomenon that has previously been interpreted as a sign that female candidates who are elected are particularly able politicians because they won an initial election in spite of the fact that electorates are typically gender-biased against female novice candidates. We confirm this correlation in our sample, but we show that it results from women incumbents being more likely to run for reelection. Moreover, we show that among incumbents who run for reelection, women have a significant electoral disadvantage.
Subjects: 
Local Public Finance
Public Choice
Gender
Regression Discontinuity
JEL: 
H0
H7
J0
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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