Historic sex-ratio imbalances predict female participation in the political market

Iris Grant, Iris Kesternich, Carina Steckenleiter and Joachim Winter ()

No 565080, Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven from KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven

Abstract: We analyze the long-term effects of gender imbalances on female labor force participation, in particular in the politician market, exploiting variation in sex ratios across Germany induced by WWII. In the 1990 elections, women were more likely to run for office in constituencies that had relatively fewer men in 1946.

Date: 2017
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Published in CES. Discussion paper series,, pages 1-13

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