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The Looks of a Winner: Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2006
success in real elections better than evaluations of competence, intelligence, likability, or trustworthiness. The beauty …We study the role of beauty in politics. For the first time, focus is put on differences in how women and men evaluate … female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320093
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The Looks of a Winner : Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success
Poutvaara, Panu - 2006
success in real elections better than evaluations of competence, intelligence, likability, or trustworthiness. The beauty …We study the role of beauty in politics. For the first time, focus is put on differences in how women and men evaluate … female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779320
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The Looks of a Winner : Beauty, Gender, and Electoral Success
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2007
We study the role of beauty in politics using candidate photos that figured prominently in electoral campaigns. Our … Finnish). An increase in beauty by one standard deviation is associated with an increase of 17-20 percent in the number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049900
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Gender Differences in Attitudes Towards Competition : Evidence from the Italian Scientific Qualification
De Paola, Maria - 2015
We exploit a natural experiment based on the Italian promotion system for associate and full professor positions to investigate gender differences in the willingness to enter competition. Using data on about 42,000 professors and controlling for productivity and a number of individual and field...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026873
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Gender differences in political career progression : evidence from U.S. elections
Brown, Ryan; Mansour, Hani; O'Connell, Stephen D.; … - 2019
and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … women, and its effect on winning a Congressional race is five times larger for men than women. These gaps emerge early in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100340
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Triple penalty in employment access : the role of beauty, race, and sex
Galarza, Francisco; Yamada, Gustavo - In: Journal of applied economics 20 (2017) 1, pp. 29-47
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The increase of the gender wage gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 economic crisis
Piazzalunga, Daniela; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura - 2016
The paper examines the gender wage gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 economic crisis, using cross-sectional EU-SILC data. The gender wage gap increased from 4% in 2008 to 8% in 2012, when for most European countries the gap decreased. After 2010 the growth of the Italian gender wage gap (and its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476261
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Do boys benefit from male teachers in elementary school? : evidence from administrative panel data
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2017
With girls having overtaken boys in many education indicators, the "feminization" of elementary school teaching is causing debates about disadvantages for male students. Using administrative panel data on the universe of students, teachers and schools for a German state, I exploit within school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120928
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Do boys benefit from male teachers in elementary school? : evidence from administrative panel data
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2017
With girls having overtaken boys in many education indicators, the 'feminization' of elementary school teaching is causing debates about disadvantages for male students. Using administrative panel data on the universe of students, teachers and schools for a German state, I exploit within school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011750628
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Gender quotas or girls' networks? : towards an understanding of recruitment in the research profession in Italy
Checchi, Daniele; Cicognani, Simona; Kulic, Nevena - 2015
This article investigates the role of the gender composition of selection committees and networks in promoting women in research activities. We exploit a novel data set on recruitment processes at entry-level research positions in a leading Italian research centre that mainly operates in hard...
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