Replication Data for: When in Debt, Appoint Women? A Re-Examination of Aid, Debt, and the Inclusion of Women in African Cabinets

Are more aid-dependent and indebted countries more likely to include women in their cabinets? Several studies have suggested that such countries seek to please donors and lenders. Focusing on Africa, we test whether leaders respond to international incentives and, specifically, signal donors and lenders that they value gender equality in political decision making. Although leaders have more direct control over the gender composition of the cabinet than the legislature, our analyses do not show that aid dependence and indebtedness result in more women in either the cabinet or the legislature. We operationalize aid dependence and indebtedness as a proportion of recipient GNI, which we argue better reflects the aid and loan recipients’ vulnerability to external pressure. Using regression analysis techniques and multiple robustness checks to evaluate our panel data, our findings remain consistent with arguments that African states have stronger bargaining positions than the foreign aid literature has acknowledged.

援助依赖程度更高且负债更重的国家是否更有可能让女性进入内阁？已有多项研究表明，这类国家会试图取悦捐赠方和贷方。本研究聚焦非洲，检验各国领导人是否会对国际激励做出回应，具体而言，是否会向捐赠方和贷方传递其重视政治决策中性别平等的信号。尽管领导人对内阁性别构成的直接控制权大于立法机构，但我们的分析并未显示，援助依赖和负债状况会导致内阁或立法机构中的女性占比增加。我们将援助依赖和负债状况操作化为占受援国国民总收入（GNI）的比例，我们认为这一更能反映援助和贷款受援国在外部压力下的脆弱性。通过回归分析技术和多重稳健性检验对面板数据进行评估后，我们的研究结果与下述观点一致：非洲国家的议价地位比对外援助文献所承认的更强。