The Exit Trap: Gender Differences in Political Perseverance

Novaes, Lucas M.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3031924

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“…The literature shows that women elected to office affect the provision of public goods (Corrêa, 2014) and reduces corruption (Brollo and Troiano, 2016). On the other hand, female candidates are less likely to be reelected and to run again for office after losing an election (Novaes, 2017;Wasserman, 2018).…”

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The cost of gendered attitudes on a female candidate: Evidence from Google Trends

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Picchetti

2020

Economics Letters

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How much can negative attitudes towards women affect voting for a female candidate on a major election? We measure gender animus by calculating a proxy based on Google search queries that include gender-charged language. Such approach likely elicits socially sensitive attitudes by limiting the concern of social censoring, circumventing usual difficulties associated with survey-based measurements. We compare the proxy to Hillary Clinton's vote share in the presidential election of 2016, controlling for the vote share of the previous Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama. Our results indicate that a one standard deviation increase in our proxy is associated with a 2 percentage points relative loss for Hillary and suggest that online-based observable behavior can be useful for measuring different kinds of hard-to-measure social attitudes.

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