This paper investigates the influence of women in politics on decision-making using public educational expenditures as the outcome of interest. The results suggest that an increase in the share of female legislators by one percentage point increases the ratio of educational expenditures to GDP by 0.038 percentage points. I then consider some different contexts, under which the influence of female legislators may be affected. The effect of female legislators on educational policies is robust in the different contexts considered, but the magnitude may change revealing perhaps that the distribution of female legislators depends on the context. Moreover, this study supports the hypothesis that the identity of the legislator matters for policy. To determine whether female legislators have causal impact on education, this paper uses electoral rules as the instrument for the proportion of female legislators. The results are encouraging, and are very likely to provide causal evidence of female legislators on educational expenditures.

本文以公共教育支出为兴趣结果，研究了妇女在政治上对决策的影响。结果表明，女性议员所占比例增加了一个百分点，教育支出占国内生产总值的比率提高了0.038个百分点。然后，我考虑一些不同的情况，在这些情况下，女性立法者的影响可能会受到影响。在所考虑的不同背景下，女性立法者对教育政策的影响是强有力的，但幅度可能会发生变化，这表明女性立法者的分布可能取决于环境。此外，这项研究支持以下假设：立法者的身份对政策至关重要。为了确定女性立法者是否对教育产生因果影响，本文使用选举规则作为女性议员比例的工具。结果令人鼓舞，并且很可能为女性立法者提供有关教育支出的因果证据。