Enfranchisement and budget deficits: a theoretical note

Signe Krogstruo () and Sébastien Wälti ()
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Signe Krogstruo: Swiss National Bank
Sébastien Wälti: Swiss National Bank
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No 01-2009, IHEID Working Papers from Economics Section, The Graduate Institute of International Studies

Abstract: If women make different economic decisions than men on average, then an increase in women's influence in the political and economic spheres of society might change economic outcomes. In this note, we focus on the impact of female enfranchisement on fiscal policy outcomes. We present a simple median voter model and show that if women have different economic preferences than men, then female enfranchisement leads to a change in government budget deficits..

Keywords: Fiscal policy; budget deficit; enfranchisement; median voter; gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 E62 H62 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8
Date: 2009-03
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