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4월 2일 화요일 오후 2시부터 4시까지 상본 323호(송하경홀)에서 경제연구소 세미나가 있습니다.

L. Choon Wang (Monash University)교수님께서 발표하십니다. 많은 참여 부탁드립니다. 

아래는 발표하시는 논문 제목과 초록이니 참고 바랍니다.

Title:

Are political parties or voters the primary source of women underrepresentation in politics? Evidence from Australian state elections"

Abstract:

We investigate whether women underrepresentation in parliaments is attributable to political parties or preferences of voters. Exploiting closely contested electorates in Australian state and territory lower house parliament elections, our regression discontinuity approach shows that parties tend to keep the genders of candidates the same in the subsequent election in electorates they barely won previously. However, parties' likelihood of winning again is greater in electorates where they barely won with male candidates than in electorates where they barely won with female candidates, especially if the genders of candidates stay unchanged. We do not find gender differences in parties' likelihoods of changing candidates and winning in electorates that they barely lost. As incumbent and non-incumbent candidates in closely contested electorates are similar in educational attainment, political experience, and other characteristics, male biased preferences of voters are likely the primary driver of women underrepresentation in Australian state politics.