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Extremely narrow election outcomes--such as could be reversed by rejecting a few thousand ballots--are likely to … College system. Starting from probabilistic simulations of likely presidential election outcomes that are similar to the … output from election forecasting models, we calculate the likelihood of disputable, narrow outcomes under the Electoral …
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Democratic CEOs associated with a significant reduction (or even disappearance) of the gender gap in the level and performance …
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research on the influence of female leadership, we find no effect of gender of the mayor on policy outcomes related to the size …
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election. Relative to entirely-white neighborhoods, residents of entirely-black neighborhoods waited 29% longer to vote and …
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The 1896 presidential election between William Jennings Bryan and William McKinley has gained new salience in the wake … indicate that bank entry would have had to be very significantly slower to tip the election. There is no question that economic … election …
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A vast labor literature has found evidence of a "glass ceiling", whereby women are under-represented among senior management. A key question remains the extent to which this reflects unobserved differences in productivity, preferences, prejudice, or systematically biased beliefs about the...
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mechanism for promoting diversity. We show that representation, on its own, is not sufficient for selecting gender diversity: a … supporting diversity and inclusion became more salient …
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, but also on one's rank within gender. Both beliefs on rank and attitudes towards competition change when moving to a more … gender-specific competition. The changes in competitive entry have important implications when assessing the costs of …
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A theory of leadership is proposed and tested. Leaders are characterized as those who have the ability to choose the right direction more frequently than their peers. The theory implies that leaders tend to be more able, place themselves in visible decision making situations more frequently, and...
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Numerous evaluations show that conditional cash transfer programs change households' investments in their young children, but there are many open questions about how such changes can be sustained after transfers end. This paper analyzes the role of social interactions with local female leaders...
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