Sex and environmental policy in the U.S. House of Representatives |
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| Authors: | Per G. Fredriksson Le Wang |
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| Affiliation: | aDepartment of Economics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA;bDepartment of Economics, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA |
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| Abstract: | ![]()
Using LCV score data, we find that female legislators favor stricter environmental policies than do their male counterparts. Moreover, gender-corrected estimates suggest that voters do not push environmental policy towards the middle, but rather select the ideologically closest candidate. |
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| Keywords: | JEL classification: D7 Q2 |
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