The effect of female leadership on contracting from Capitol Hill to Main Street

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Brogaard, Jonathan; Gerasimova, Nataliya; Rohrer, Maximilian
• 署名单位: Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah; BI Norwegian Business School; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-405X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2024.103817
• 发表日期: 2024
• 关键词: SMALL BUSINESS; Women-owned firms; Government procurement contracts; Female politicians; gender gap

摘要

This paper provides novel evidence that female politicians increase the proportion of US government procurement contracts allocated to women -owned firms. For identification, we use a regression discontinuity design on a sample of mixed -gender elections in the US House of Representatives. The effect grows over female representative's tenure and concentrates in female representatives who are on powerful congressional committees. Changes in the pool of and behavior by government contractors cannot explain the result. The more gender -balanced representation in government contracting is not associated with economic costs.