Agenda

07 Dic 2022 12:15

Internal seminar - Elena Renzullo

Meeting Room 1, Campus Economico San Giobbe + Live streaming (ZOOM)

Elena Renzullo - The political economy of early childcare provision

Abstract: This paper contributes to the debate on how gender differences in policy preferences might shape public service provision. According to the citizen-candidate model, the gender of policymakers leads to different policies (top-down mechanism). Conversely, the median voter theorem states that politicians choose policy by simply mimicking citizens’ gender norms (bottom-up mechanism). I empirically investigate these two political mechanisms using two different counterfactual methodologies and exploiting the granularity of administrative Italian data on early childcare provision at the municipality level. On the one hand, a regression discontinuity design on closed mix-gender elections of the Italian mayors shows that the gender of policymakers does not influence policy choices. On the other hand, an instrumental variable model shows that gender norms, instrumented by the share of “No” votes in the divorce referendum of 1974, affect the provision of early childcare.  The results of this work show that the differences in gender preferences influence public service provision through a bottom-up mechanism. 


The seminar can be attended also remotely, connecting to ZOOM: unive.zoom.us/j/83119523694
ID riunione: 831 1952 3694

 

Lingua

L'evento si terrà in inglese

Organizzatore

Dipartimento di Economia (InSeminars)

Link

https://unive.zoom.us/j/83119523694

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