Replication data for: Does the Election of a Female Leader Clear the Way for More Women in Politics?

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Project Citation:

Baskaran, Thushyanthan, and Hessami, Zohal. Replication data for: Does the Election of a Female Leader Clear the Way for More Women in Politics? Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2018. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114710V1

Project Description

Summary: Women remain underrepresented in politics and it remains unclear how this might change. In this paper, we investigate whether female council candidates receive more preferential votes when a female mayor has been recently elected into office. We hand collect data for 109,017 candidates in four open-list local council elections (2001-2016) in all 426 municipalities of a German state. Based on RDD estimations for close mixed-gender races, we show that female council candidates advance more from their initial list rank when the mayor is female. This effect spreads to neighboring municipalities and leads to a rising share of female council members.

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JEL Classification:
      D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      J71 Labor Discrimination

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