Women and Power: Unpopular, Unwilling, or Held Back?
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Casas-Arce, Pablo
Saiz, Albert
Date Issued
June 2015
Journal
Journal of Political Economy
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University of Chicago Press
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Casas-Arce, Pablo, and Albert Saiz. “Women and Power: Unpopular, Unwilling, or Held Back?” Journal of Political Economy 123.3 (2015): 641–669. © 2015 by The University of Chicago
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Abstract
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
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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https://doi.org/10.1086/680686
