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 …

and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique cannot be used directly, however, if the outcome is binary and the coefficients … are from a logit or probit model. I describe a relatively simple method of performing a decomposition that uses estimates … from a logit or probit model. Expanding on the original application of the technique in Fairlie (1999), I provide a more …