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Gender and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Crisis Response

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  • Juan Pablo Chauvin
  • Clemence Tricaud

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This paper provides new evidence on why men and women leaders make different choices. We first show theoretically how voters’ gender bias can lead female politicians to undertake different policies. We then test the model’s predictions by exploring leaders’ responses to COVID-19. Exploiting Brazilian close elections, we find that, consistent with the model, female mayors were less likely to close non-essential businesses at first and that female-led municipalities experienced higher mortality, while the reverse was true later on. These results are exclusively driven by mayors facing reelection and are stronger in municipalities where voters’ bias is more likely to materialize.

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  • Juan Pablo Chauvin & Clemence Tricaud, 2024. "Gender and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Crisis Response," NBER Working Papers 32410, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:32410
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    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
    • H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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