Women in Political Bodies as Policymakers
利用巴伐利亚地方议会选举的新数据，研究发现增加一名女性议员能使公共托儿服务扩张速度提升40%，且这种效应仅在女性议员较少的议会中显著，原因是女性改变了讨论内容。
Abstract We investigate how female representation impacts policymaking using the example of child care and new hand-collected data on local council elections in Bavaria. RDD estimations (mixed-gender races for last party-specific council seats) show that an additional female councilor accelerates the expansion of public child care by 40%. We also document an important nonlinearity: an additional woman accelerates the expansion of child care only in councils with few women. Council meeting minutes reveal that women can be effective in councils despite being a nonpivotal minority because they change “the conversation.”