Do Gender Quotas Influence Women's Representation and Policies?
2009/02/03
研討會日期 : 2009-02-03
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : 陳麗如 小姐
地點 : B110
演講者簡介 : 陳麗如小姐為Ph.D. in Economics，Stockholm University (June 2009 expected)。其主要研究領域為Applied Econometrics、Economic Development 及 Political Economy。目前正申請本所研究職務中。
演講摘要 : This paper investigates the effect of applying gender quotas on policy decisions. I first examine the effect of gender quotas on the representation of female legislators, study the correlation between gender quotas and different types of government expenditures, and then use quotas as an instrument for female legislators to investigate the effect of female legislators on policy outcomes. The results show that an increase by one percentage point in the share of female legislators increases 0.18 and 0.67 percentage points the ratio of government expenditure on health and social welfare to GDP, respectively. The robustness check supports that the effect of quotas on female legislators is likely to be translated into the influence of female policymakers on social welfare.
