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Replication Data for: Time in Office and the Changing Gender Gap in Dishonesty: Evidence from Local Politics in India

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Title Replication Data for: Time in Office and the Changing Gender Gap in Dishonesty: Evidence from Local Politics in India
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HX6YRD
 
Creator Chaudhuri, Ananish
Iversen, Vegard
Jensenius, Francesca R.
Maitra, Pushkar
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Increasing the share of women in politics is often promoted as a means to reduce corruption. Recent studies indicate the importance of considering the gender gap in corruption as a dynamic, rather than static, phenomenon. Our study combines data from surveys and incentivized behavioral games among 400 inexperienced and experienced local politicians in West Bengal, India. We find no gender gap in attitudes towards corruption. However, in incentivized games, inexperienced female politicians are more honest than their male counterparts. No such gender gap exists among experienced politicians. Drawing on a theoretical discussion of four possible mechanisms, we find that the apparent increase in dishonest behavior among female politicians is associated with lower risk-aversion and stronger political networks. Our findings indicate that women, like men, are socialized into their local political culture, and that benefits from changing who is elected may be short-lived unless that culture is also changed.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Corruption
Dishonesty
Gender
Experiments
 
Contributor Jensenius, Francesca
 
Source Global Administrative Areas (2022). UC, Berkely [digital geospatial data]. Accessed at: http://www.gadm.org.