This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service … and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … legislature seats. This gender gap in advancing to Congress among state legislators is not generated by gender differences in …

This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service … and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … legislature seats. This gender gap in advancing to Congress among state legislators is not generated by gender differences in …

Striving for gender equality presents major challenges but the benefits are vast, ranging from reduced conflict, both … within and between communities, to higher economic growth. Unfortunately, Israel's gender wage gap remains one of the highest … among developed countries, despite a growing reverse gender gap in educational attainment. Investigating the gender wage gap …

difference-in-discontinuities design, I then show that the gender gap in the probability of being elected has long …

This paper documents an important but mostly overlooked reason for female underrepresentation in politics: gender gaps … council elections (2001-2016) in a German state, we provide evidence for a gender recontest gap among both incumbent and non …

surveys. Our results shed new light on the importance of life-course transitions and their gender-heterogeneous effects as key …

This short article looks at the development of an electoral gender gap over time, using, for the first time, actual … 1954 to 1991. Firstly, using this unique design, we conclude that the traditional gender gap (males more left …-leaning) existed up to 1969 and then changed into the modern gender gap (females more left-leaning), from that date. These results …