Fighting Violence Against Women: The Role of Female Political Representation
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2022-05Typ
- Working Paper
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Abstract
We investigate the effect of women’s political leadership in local government on homicide and violence against women. Using a regression discontinuity design we compare Brazilian municipalities where a female candidate barely won to those where a female candidate barely lost mayoral elections. Having a female mayor reduces homicide rate of women by 20% and violence (physical, psychological, sexual) by 40%. These results are not due to pre-existing municipalities characteristics or other observable mayor characteristics. Overall, our findings provide compelling evidence that women holding office are effective in addressing violence against women. Mehr anzeigen
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000547361Publikationsstatus
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Center for Law & Economics Working Paper SeriesBand
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Center for Law & Economics, ETH ZurichThema
Female Politicians; Gender; Femicide; Violence; Brazil; RDDOrganisationseinheit
09627 - Ash, Elliott / Ash, Elliott
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Is previous version of: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000618361
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