| dc.contributor.author | Casas-Arce, Pablo | |
| dc.contributor.author | Saiz, Albert | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-12-28T15:17:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-12-28T15:17:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-06 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0022-3808 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1537-534X | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106158 | |
| dc.description.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 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | University of Chicago Press | en_US |
| dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/680686 | en_US |
| dc.rights | Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. | en_US |
| dc.source | University of Chicago Press | en_US |
| dc.title | Women and Power: Unpopular, Unwilling, or Held Back? | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | 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 | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning | en_US |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Saiz, Albert | |
| dc.relation.journal | Journal of Political Economy | en_US |
| dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en_US |
| dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
| eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
| dspace.orderedauthors | Casas-Arce, Pablo; Saiz, Albert | en_US |
| dspace.embargo.terms | N | en_US |
| dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4407-4661 | |
| mit.license | PUBLISHER_POLICY | en_US |
| mit.metadata.status | Complete | |
