Sex and environmental policy in the U.S. House of Representatives

Per Fredriksson and Le Wang

Economics Letters, 2011, vol. 113, issue 3, 228-230

Abstract: Using LCV score data, we find that female legislators favor stricter environmental policies than do their male counterparts. Moreover, gender-corrected estimates suggest that voters do not push environmental policy towards the middle, but rather select the ideologically closest candidate.

Keywords: Gender; Female; Median voter; Congress; Environment; Regression discontinuity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D7 Q2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.07.019

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