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The Size of Local Legislatures and Women's Political Representation: Evidence from Brazil

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  • Gabriel Correa
  • Ricardo A. Madeira

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Exploiting the exogenous changes in local legislature size at certain population thresholds in Brazil, this paper investigates whether the number of legislators can impact the political participation of women, a group that is extremely underrepresented in Brazilian politics. The results suggest that the number of seats in the legislature has a significant positive impact on women's presence in the political sphere, and we show that these effects are direct consequences of changes in local political competition. We also report that the representation of women in the decision-making process influences the municipal provision of public goods and services.

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  • Gabriel Correa & Ricardo A. Madeira, 2014. "The Size of Local Legislatures and Women's Political Representation: Evidence from Brazil," Working Papers, Department of Economics 2014_04, University of São Paulo (FEA-USP).
    • Handle: RePEc:spa:wpaper:2014wpecon4
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    1. Britto, Diogo G.C. & Fiorin, Stefano, 2020. "Corruption and legislature size: Evidence from Brazil," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 65(C).
    2. Lassébie, Julie, 2020. "Gender quotas and the selection of local politicians: Evidence from French municipal elections," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 62(C).
    3. Daan van der Linde & Swantje Falcke & Ian Koetsier & Brigitte Unger, 2014. "Do Wages Affect Politicians' Performance? A regression discontinuity approach for Dutch municipalities," Working Papers 14-15, Utrecht School of Economics.

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    Keywords

    Legislature Size; Women’s Political Representation; Regression Discontinuity Design.;
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    JEL classification:

    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
    • D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
    • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods

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