Women and local public finance

Alessandra Casarico, Salvatore Lattanzio and Paola Profeta

European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, vol. 72, issue C

Abstract: Does the gender of the mayor affect the size and composition of public expenditures and revenues? Using a sharp regression discontinuity design in close mixed gender races for the election of mayors in Italian municipalities in the period 2000–2015, we find no significant differences in policies implemented by male and female mayors. We explore whether the result masks heterogeneity by gender composition of the local government and by electoral rules according to which a mayor is elected. We find some evidence that female mayors devote a larger share of spending to the environment when there are more women in the municipal council, whereas they reduce the amount of resources going to social spending under the run-off relative to the single round system.

Keywords: Gender; Municipal government; Local public finance; Regression discontinuity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E62 H71 H72 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2021.102096

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