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 … election relative to an analogous impact for men who closely win or lose a state legislature election. We find that the effect …

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 … election relative to an analogous impact for men who closely win or lose a state legislature election. We find that the effect …

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 …

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 …

Bavaria. Exploiting an open-list electoral system, we run RDD regressions centered around mixed-gender races for the last … council seat that accrues to a party. We find that a female victory in a mixed-gender race accelerates the expansion of public …

This paper sheds light on a neglected reason for women's underrepresentation in politics: crisis-induced gender gaps in … in open-list local council elections (1997-2021) in the German state of Hesse. We exploit the March 2021 election one … where (individual) councilors had no role in fighting the pandemic, we provide robust evidence for a gender blame …

affiliation and gender. We conducted experimental elections in which participants made their vote choices based solely on … politicians' faces. When choosing between female and male candidates, Democrats, and especially Democratic women, preferred female … appear ready to further narrow the gender gap in politics. …