De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo; Lombardo, Rosetta - In: Journal of Public Economics 94 (2010) 5-6, pp. 344-353
In this paper, we analyze the effect of gender quotas on women's involvement in political activity by using a rich data set providing information on all Italian local administrators who were elected from 1985 to 2007. Gender quotas were introduced by law in Italy in 1993 and were in force until...
