-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 …

-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 …

,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 …