Krogstrup, Signe; Wälti, Sébastien - International Economics Section, The Graduate Institute … - 2007
If women have different economic preferences than men, then female economic and political empowerment is likely to … of women's vote on budget deficits in a differences-in-differences regression for Swiss cantonal panel data, we find that … including women in the electorate reduces average per capita budget deficits by a statistically significant amount. …