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The right look: Conservative politicians look better and their voters reward it
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2011
municipal and parliamentary elections and that they have a larger beauty premium in municipal, but not in parliamentary …, elections. As municipal candidates are relatively unknown, the beauty-premium gap indicates that voters especially those to the … right use beauty as a cue for candidate ideology or quality in the municipal elections. …
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The Looks of a Winner: Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
success in real elections better than evaluations of competence, intelligence, likability, or trustworthiness. The beauty …We study the role of beauty in politics. For the first time, focus is put on differences in how women and men evaluate … female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have …
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The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward It
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
municipal and parliamentary elections and that they have a larger beauty premium in municipal, but not in parliamentary …, elections. As municipal candidates are relatively unknown, the beauty-premium gap indicates that voters – especially those to … the right – use beauty as a cue for candidate ideology or quality in the municipal elections. …
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Returns to Office in National and Local Politics
Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Terviö, Marko - 2016
We estimate the effect of getting elected on future income development of political candidates. We present a bootstrap approach for measuring electoral closeness, which can be used to implement a regression discontinuity design in any electoral system. We apply the method to the Finnish...
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Are Men Given Priority for Top Jobs? Investigating the Glass Ceiling in the Italian Academia
De Paola, Maria; Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2016
We aim to investigate if men receive preferential treatment in promotions using the Italian system for the access to associate and full professor positions that is organized in two stages: first, candidates participate in a national wide competition to obtain the National Scientific...
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Gender Differences in Attitudes Towards Competition: Evidence from the Italian Scientific Qualification
De Paola, Maria; Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2015
We exploit a natural experiment based on the Italian promotion system for associate and full professor positions to investigate gender differences in the willingness to enter competition. Using data on about 42,000 professors and controlling for productivity and a number of individual and field...
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Gender Differences in Attitudes Towards Competition: Evidence from the Italian Scientific Qualification
De Paola, Maria; Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We exploit a natural experiment based on the Italian promotion system for associate and full professor positions to investigate gender differences in the willingness to enter competition. Using data on about 42,000 professors and controlling for productivity and a number of individual and field...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011195813
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Gender Differences in Political Career Progression: Evidence from U.S. Elections
Brown, Ryan; Mansour, Hani; O'Connell, Stephen D.; … - 2019
and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … women, and its effect on winning a Congressional race is five times larger for men than women. These gaps emerge early in …
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Does gender matter for academic promotion? Evidence from a randomized natural experiment
Zinovyeva, Natalia; Bagues, Manuel F. - 2011
Several countries have recently introduced gender quotas in hiring and promotion committees at universities. This paper studies whether these policies increase the presence of women in top academic positions. The identification strategy exploits the random assignment mechanism in place between...
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The Increase of the Gender Wage Gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 Economic Crisis
Piazzalunga, Daniela; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura - 2016
The paper examines the gender wage gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 economic crisis, using cross-sectional EU-SILC data. The gender wage gap increased from 4% in 2008 to 8% in 2012, when for most European countries the gap decreased. After 2010 the growth of the Italian gender wage gap (and its...
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