investigate the relation between issue salience and women's performance using US data on House and Senate elections. Estimates of … significantly increase the probability that women candidates win elections. …In this paper we study whether and how the belief that the gender of politicians affects their competence on different …

choices using the example of child care - a public good arguably valued by women. We hand-collect micro-data for 224 …,448 candidates running in the local council elections of 2002, 2008 and 2014 across 1,632 municipalities in the German state of …