Baltrunaite, Audinga; Casarico, Alessandra; Profeta, Paola - CESifo - 2014
politicians. We consider an Italian law which introduced gender quotas in candidate lists for local elections in 1993, and was … municipalities and use a Difference in differences estimation to analyze the effect of gender quotas on the age of elected … politicians. We find that gender quotas are associated with election of politicians that are younger by more than one year. The …