Replication Data for: The Influence Gap: Unequal Policy Responsiveness to Men and Women

Previous version: "Gender, Economic Inequality, and Political Power". Abstract: Despite decades of research on women’s representation, we still know surprisingly little about the extent to which public policy responds unequally to the preferences of women and men. This article exploits two comparable datasets, one for the United States and one for Norway, together containing measures of gender-disaggregated public opinion, as well as public policy outcomes, on 2,650 specific proposals asked about in survey polls between 1964 and 2014. The data reveal a substantial gap in policy responsiveness to men and women (in favor of men) in both countries. However, in Norway, the gender-gap has virtually disappeared over time, a development that appears to be attributable to the increasing share of women in parliament. In the US, the gap has remained remarkably stable over time.旧版标题：《性别、经济不平等与政治权力》。摘要：尽管针对女性参政代表的研究已开展数十年，但我们仍对公共政策在多大程度上对男性与女性的偏好做出差异化回应知之甚少。本文采用两份可对比的数据集，分别覆盖美国与挪威，二者涵盖1964年至2014年间2650项民调中涉及的具体提案的按性别分类的民意数据，以及公共政策结果指标。数据显示，两国公共政策在回应男性与女性偏好时均存在显著差距（偏向男性群体）。然而在挪威，这一性别差距随时间推移已基本消失，该变化似乎可归因于议会中女性占比的不断提升；而在美国，该差距长期以来始终保持相对稳定。