Mafia Wears Out Women in Power: Evidence from Italian Municipalities

Anna Laura Baraldi (), Giovanni Immordino and Marco Stimolo ()
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Anna Laura Baraldi: Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
Marco Stimolo: Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli

CSEF Working Papers from Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy

Abstract: We test a neglected implication of women’s higher risk aversion: i.e., organized crime infiltration, increasing the perceived risk of entering politics, can prove more effective in discouraging highly qualified women to run for election compared to men. We constructed a data set based on yearly observations of 1,608 Italian municipalities in the 1985–2016 period. Exploiting the exogenous shock of municipal government dissolution for mafia infiltration, we robustly identify a stronger negative effect of organized crime activity on female politicians than on male.

Keywords: Gender; Organized crime; Politician’s quality; Municipal government. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H70 J16 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-10-28
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