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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP6937 |
DP6937 Oil Prices, Profits, and Recessions: An Inquiry Using Terrorism as an Instrumental Variable | |
Andrew Oswald; Natalie Chen; Liam Graham | |
发表日期 | 2008-08-15 |
出版年 | 2008 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We exploit random assignment of gender quotas across Indian village councils to investigate whether having a female chief councillor affects public opinion towards female leaders. Villagers who have never been required to have a female leader prefer male leaders and perceive hypothetical female leaders as less effective than their male counterparts, when stated performance is identical. Exposure to a female leader does not alter villagers' taste preference for male leaders. However, it weakens stereotypes about gender roles in the public and domestic spheres and eliminates the negative bias in how female leaders' effectiveness is perceived among male villagers. Female villagers exhibit less prior bias, but are also less likely to know about or participate in local politics; as a result, their attitudes are largely unaffected. Consistent with our experimental findings, villagers rate their women leaders as less effective when exposed to them for the first, but not second, time. These changes in attitude are electorally meaningful: after 10 years of the quota policy, women are more likely to stand for and win free seats in villages that have been continuously required to have a female chief councillor. |
主题 | Development Economics |
关键词 | Economics of gender Non-labour descrimination Political economy Development planning and policy |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp6937 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/535772 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Andrew Oswald,Natalie Chen,Liam Graham. DP6937 Oil Prices, Profits, and Recessions: An Inquiry Using Terrorism as an Instrumental Variable. 2008. |
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