Replication Data for Gendered Bureaucracies: Women Mayors and the Size and Composition of Local Governments

While women are underrepresented in politics, recent improvements in women’s representation in legislative and executive bodies have spurred academic interest in the effects of electing women on a wide array of outcomes. Effects on bureaucracies, however, have received less attention. Do women mayors reform local bureaucracies differently than their men counterparts? We take advantage of rich administrative data from Chile to explore the effects of having a woman mayor on the size and gender composition of municipal bureaucracies. Using a regression discontinuity design in close electoral races, we find that women mayors reduce the size of local bureaucracies while simultaneously increasing the share of women public employees. Our findings thus show that women mayors’ approach to bureaucratic reform once in office differs from that of their men counterparts, and contribute to existing research on the consequences of electing women.尽管女性在政治领域的代表性仍显不足，但近年来女性在立法与行政机构中的代表比例逐步提升，这激发了学术界对选举女性官员所产生的各类治理效应的研究兴趣。然而，此类效应对官僚体系的影响却较少受到关注。女性市长与男性同僚在地方官僚体系改革的实践中是否存在差异？我们依托智利丰富的行政数据，探究女性市长任职对市政官僚体系规模与性别构成的影响。通过对势均力敌的选举对决采用断点回归设计（Regression Discontinuity Design），我们发现，女性市长会缩减地方官僚体系的规模，同时提升女性公职人员的占比。综上，女性市长上任后的官僚改革施政思路与男性同僚存在显著差异，本研究也为现有关于选举女性官员的后续影响相关研究提供了新的学术补充。