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The right look: Conservative politicians look better than their voters reward it
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2010
municipal and parliamentary elections and also have a larger beauty premium in municipal, but not in parliamentary, elections … data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey in which 2,513 non-Finnish respondents evaluated the facial …
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The Looks of a Winner : Beauty, Gender, and Electoral Success
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2007
We study the role of beauty in politics using candidate photos that figured prominently in electoral campaigns. Our … Finnish). An increase in beauty by one standard deviation is associated with an increase of 17-20 percent in the number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049900
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Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations
Mengel, Friederike; Sauermann, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2018
This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset of 19,952 student evaluations of university faculty in a context where students are randomly allocated to female or male instructors. Despite the fact that neither students' grades...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932019
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Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations
Mengel, Friederike - 2019
This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset of 19,952 student evaluations of university faculty in a context where students are randomly allocated to female or male instructors. Despite the fact that neither students' grades...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892308
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The looks of a winner: beauty, gender, and electoral success
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2007
We study the role of beauty in politics using candidate photos that figured prominently in electoral campaigns. Our … Finnish). An increase in beauty by one standard deviation is associated with an increase of 17-20 percent in the number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264132
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Pay for politicians and candidate selection: An empirical analysis
Kotakorpi, Kaisa Ilona; Poutvaara, Panu - 2010
-in-differences analysis, using candidates in municipal elections as a control group, suggests that the higher salary increased the fraction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274486
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Let the Voters Choose Women
Baltrunaite, Audinga; Casarico, Alessandra; Profeta, Paola - 2016
Female under-representation in politics can be the result of parties’ selection of candidates and/or of voters’ electoral preferences. To assess the impact of these two channels, we exploit the introduction of Italian Law 215/2013, which prescribes both gender quotas on candidate lists and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431234
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Election Systems, the "Beauty Premium" in Politics, and the Beauty of Dissent
Potrafke, Niklas; Rösch, Marcus; Ursprung, Heinrich - 2020
into electoral success? Second, do political parties strategically exploit the “beauty premium” when deciding on which … candidates to nominate, and, third, do elected MPs use their beauty premium to reap some independence from their party? Using the … show that plurality elections provide more scope for translating physical attractiveness into electoral success than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227636
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Spill-over Effects of Affirmative Action: Political Representation and the Power of the Elderly
Baltrunaite, Audinga; Casarico, Alessandra; Profeta, Paola - 2014
politicians. We consider an Italian law which introduced gender quotas in candidate lists for local elections in 1993, and was … abolished in 1995. As not all municipalities went through elections during this period, we can identify two groups of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398628
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Gender quotas and the quality of politicians
Baltrunaite, Audinga; Bello, Piera; Casarico, Alessandra; … - 2012
consider an Italian law which introduced gender quotas in local elections in 1993, and was abolished in 1995. As not all … municipalities went through elections during the period the reform was in force, we can identify two groups of municipalities and use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280847