The share of women in political offices has increased considerably over the past few
decades in almost every country in the world. Does this matter for policy outcomes? This is …

Can prominent female politicians inspire other women to enter politics? A woman occupying
a high‐profile office directly impacts women's substantive representation through her policy …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of the short-and medium-term effects of gender
quotas in candidate lists using evidence from local elections in Spain. In the context of a …

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 …

We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance rights for women modifies the
historic preference for sons in India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the …

This paper uses data from artefactual field experiments and surveys conducted in 61
villages in India to examine whether men and women respond differently to women as …

We study the causal impact of electing criminally accused politicians to state legislative
assemblies in India on the subsequent economic performance of their constituencies. Using …

This paper documents gender differences in the career paths of novice politicians. Using
trajectories of over 11,000 candidates for California local offices and a regression …

This article studies gender differences in lawmaking in a context of gender quotas. I use two
empirical strategies to randomize the gender of legislators and text analysis to identify the …

There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the
last two decades, but there is no evidence of how this has influenced economic …