Women in Cabinet and Public Health Spending: Evidence Across Countries
This article studies the effect of women’s cabinet representation on public health policy outcomes. Based on a large sample of countries in the year 2000, the analysis shows that an increase in the share of women in cabinet is associated with an increase in public health spending. There is also an i...
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| author | Mavisakalyan, Astghik |
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| description | This article studies the effect of women’s cabinet representation on public health policy outcomes. Based on a large sample of countries in the year 2000, the analysis shows that an increase in the share of women in cabinet is associated with an increase in public health spending. There is also an indication of a decrease in the gender gap in life expectancies in places with higher cabinet representation of women. The endogeneity of women’s cabinet representation is accounted for by using the share of daughters that a national leader parents as an instrument. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-381772017-09-13T14:12:15Z Women in Cabinet and Public Health Spending: Evidence Across Countries Mavisakalyan, Astghik Cabinet Public spending Politician identity Gender Health Life expectancy This article studies the effect of women’s cabinet representation on public health policy outcomes. Based on a large sample of countries in the year 2000, the analysis shows that an increase in the share of women in cabinet is associated with an increase in public health spending. There is also an indication of a decrease in the gender gap in life expectancies in places with higher cabinet representation of women. The endogeneity of women’s cabinet representation is accounted for by using the share of daughters that a national leader parents as an instrument. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38177 10.1007/s10101-014-0141-x Springer restricted |
| spellingShingle | Cabinet Public spending Politician identity Gender Health Life expectancy Mavisakalyan, Astghik Women in Cabinet and Public Health Spending: Evidence Across Countries |
| title | Women in Cabinet and Public Health Spending: Evidence Across Countries |
| title_full | Women in Cabinet and Public Health Spending: Evidence Across Countries |
| title_fullStr | Women in Cabinet and Public Health Spending: Evidence Across Countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Women in Cabinet and Public Health Spending: Evidence Across Countries |
| title_short | Women in Cabinet and Public Health Spending: Evidence Across Countries |
| title_sort | women in cabinet and public health spending: evidence across countries |
| topic | Cabinet Public spending Politician identity Gender Health Life expectancy |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38177 |