性别配额和政治家的教育

IF 2.3 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-09-27 DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107260

Francesca Passarelli, David Boto-García

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摘要

性别配额对市议会成员的受教育程度有什么影响？虽然广泛的研究审查了性别配额的政治后果，但其对当选官员的教育资格的影响仍不清楚。本文提供了来自西班牙的新证据，分析了2003年、2007年、2011年和2015年选举中的119,624名当选市政议员。采用不连续性差异研究设计，我们比较了低于和高于配额执行人口阈值的城市实施配额前后的结果。我们的研究结果显示，平均而言，性别配额对当选男女议员的学历构成没有显著影响。因此，虽然配额成功地增加了女性代表，但它们对当选政治家的整体教育水平似乎是中立的。然而，进一步的分析表明，在最初教育水平较低的城市，配额提高了当选政治家的平均教育水平，但在配额前教育水平较高的城市，配额降低了当选政治家的平均教育水平。

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Gender quotas and politicians’ education

What are the effects of gender quotas on the educational attainment of municipality councils? While extensive research examines the political consequences of gender quotas, their impact on the educational qualifications of elected officials remains unclear. This paper provides novel evidence from Spain, analyzing 119,624 elected municipal councilors across the 2003, 2007, 2011, and 2015 elections. Using a difference-in-discontinuities research design, we compare outcomes before and after quota implementation in municipalities below and above the population threshold for quota enforcement. Our results show that, on average, gender quotas have no significant effect on the educational composition of elected male and female councilors. Thus, while quotas successfully increase female representation, they appear neutral regarding the overall education levels of elected politicians. However, further analyses reveal that quotas increase the average education level of elected politicians in municipalities with initially lower education levels, but decrease it in those with higher pre-quota education levels.

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization ECONOMICS-

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3.80

自引率

9.10%

发文量

392

期刊介绍： The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization is devoted to theoretical and empirical research concerning economic decision, organization and behavior and to economic change in all its aspects. Its specific purposes are to foster an improved understanding of how human cognitive, computational and informational characteristics influence the working of economic organizations and market economies and how an economy structural features lead to various types of micro and macro behavior, to changing patterns of development and to institutional evolution. Research with these purposes that explore the interrelations of economics with other disciplines such as biology, psychology, law, anthropology, sociology and mathematics is particularly welcome.