-specific gender bias in elections which can describe both the presence of a real comparative advantage ('kernel-of-truth' case, or …In this paper we study whether and how the belief that the gender of politicians affects their competence on different … investigate the relation between issue salience and women's performance using US data on House and Senate elections. Estimates of …

,448 candidates running in the local council elections of 2002, 2008 and 2014 across 1,632 municipalities in the German state of … 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 …

Do women really improve conditions for gender equality after becoming heads of states? This study investigates if …

We analyze the long-term effects of gender imbalances on female labor force participation, in particular in the market … - across Germany induced by WWII. In the 1990 elections, women were more likely to run for office in constituencies that had …

Gender gaps in leadership roles may be reduced by increasing the number of women in career stages that typically … women to a career pipeline can reduce gender gaps in higher-ranking positions over time. Specifically, we examine the … 2014. We use close elections won by women contesting state legislature seats to identify the effect of pipeline expansion …