Women and Power: Unpopular, Unwilling, or Held Back?
By Pablo Casas-Arce, Albert Saiz. Journal of Political Economy, 2015
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We use Spain’s Equality Law to test for the existence of agency problems between party leaders and their constituents. The law mandates a 40 percent female quota on electoral lists in towns with populations above 5,000. Using pre- and postquota data by party and municipality, we implement a triple-difference design. We find that female quotas resulted in slightly better electoral results for the parties that were most affected by the quota. Our evidence shows that party leaders were not maximizing electoral results prior to the quota, suggesting the existence of agency problems that hinder female representation in political institutions.
Subfields: Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations
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- Regression Discontinuity Designs Based on Population Thresholds: Pitfalls and Solutions (2015, background): “Campa (2011) and Casas-Arce and Saiz (2015) provide other examples of diff-in-disc designs with population thresholds in the estimation of the impact of electoral gender quota in Spain.”