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Replication data for: Women Don't Run? Election Aversion and Candidate Entry

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Title Replication data for: Women Don't Run? Election Aversion and Candidate Entry
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/26783
 
Creator Kanthak, Kristin
Woon, Jonathan
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description To study gender differences in candidate emergence, we conduct a laboratory experiment in which we control the incentives potential candidates face, manipulate features of the electoral environment, and measure beliefs and preferences. We find that men and women are equally likely to volunteer when the representative is chosen randomly, but that women are less likely to become candidates when the representative is chosen by an election. This difference does not arise from disparities in abilities, risk aversion, or beliefs, but rather from the specific competitive and strategic context of campaigns and elections. Thus, we find evidence that women are election averse whereas men are not. Election aversion persists with variations in the electoral environment, disappearing only when campaigns are both costless and completely truthful.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Experiment, Candidate entry
Political candidate
Incentives
Gender
 
Contributor Jonathan Woon
 
Type Experimental