Can Gender Quotas Break Down Negative Stereotypes? Evidence From Changes In Electoral Rules

By M. Paola, Vincenzo Scoppa, R. Lombardo. 2010

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Gender Gaps in Policy Making: Evidence from Direct Democracy in Switzerland (2008, background): “While quotas have improved female representation (see De Paola et al., 2010, for Italy; Bagues and Esteve-Volart, 2012, for Spain), little is known today whether quotas have any effects on policy making (one exception being Chattopadhyay and Duflo, 2004).”
Methods for estimating aboveground biomass and its components for Douglas-fir and lodgepole pine trees (2016, background): “Since then, it has been used in many fields including medicine (Hubben et al. 2008), economics (De Paola et al. 2010), education (Smithson and Verkuilen 2006), and forestry (Korhonen et al. 2007; Eskelson et al. 2011).”
A Command for Fitting Mixture Regression Models for Bounded Dependent Variables Using the Beta Distribution (2018, background): “A few examples include modelling the rates of employee participation in pension plans (Papke and Wooldridge 1996), the percentage of women on Municipal Councils or Executive Committees (Paola et al. 2010), an index measuring Central Bank independence (Berggren et al. 2014), the proportion of a firm’”
Are women pawns in the political game? Evidence from elections to the Spanish Senate (2012, background): “Second, we do not observe any significant changes in the gender gap in quality of the positions over time (columns (4)-(7)).”
Fair Play::More Equal Laws Boost Female Labor Force Participation (2015, background): “The introduction of female quotas in Italy in the 1990s tripled the probability of voting for women (De Paola, Scoppa, and Lombardo 2010) and increased female representation in politics (Bonomi, Brosio, and Di Tommaso 2013).”
Women and Power: Unpopular, Unwilling, or Held Back? (2015, background): “Therefore, we also control for a quadratic in the initial list's share of women in 2003 on the right-hand side in all speci cations in Table 4.(19) Furthermore, we always include municipal xed e ects.”