Development Policy Centre Discussion Paper No. 18
May 2012
This article investigates whether female political representation affects economic growth. Panel estimates for 119 democracies using fixed effects specifications and a system generalized method of moments approach suggest that, over recent decades, countries with higher shares of women in parliament have had faster growing economies.
Jayasuriya, D. & Burke, P.J. 2012, ‘Female parliamentarians and economic growth: evidence from a large panel’, Discussion Paper No. 18, Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra.
