Titel: | The Influence of Politicians’ Sex on Political Budget Cycles: An Empirical Analysis of Spanish Municipalities |
Autor: | García, Israel |
Weitere Verfasser: | Hayo, Bernd |
Veröffentlicht: | 2022 |
URI: | https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/es/2024/0731 |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-es2024-07313 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17192/es2024.0731 |
ISSN: | 1867-3678 |
DDC: | 330 Wirtschaft |
Publikationsdatum: | 2024-01-19 |
Lizenz: | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0 |
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Local politicians, Spanish municipalities, Political budget cycles, Madrid region, Gender, Fiscal policy, Signalling mechanism |
Summary:
Does a politician’s sex influence political budget cycles (PBCs)? We answer this question using a sample of Spanish municipalities from the Madrid region for the period 2010−2019. The Madrid region has a homogenous set of budget rules that allows consistently categorising budget expenditure items as either ‘mandatory’ or ‘non-mandatory’ public services. After differentiating between smaller and larger municipalities, gender influence is studied along two dimensions: mayor’s sex and share of women in government. Our findings include, in regard to mandatory spending in smaller municipalities, that gender-balanced governments induce PBCs. In larger municipalities, when the share of women in government is above 60%, electoral spending is increased by up to 10% of an average municipal budget for mandatory spending, and up to 2.2% for non-mandatory. These findings are generally supported in a mixed-gender close election analysis.
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