Pathbreakers? Women's Electoral Success and Future Political Participation
利用印度选区数据，通过断点回归设计研究女性当选州议员是否鼓励更多女性参与政治，发现女性连任率更高但新候选人减少，尤其在性别偏见严重地区和男性主导政党中。
We investigate whether the event of a woman being competitively elected as a state legislator encourages the subsequent political participation of women, using a regression discontinuity design on constituency level data from India. We find that female incumbents are more likely than male incumbents to re-contest and that there is a decline in the entry of new women candidates. This decline is most pronounced in states with entrenched gender bias and in male-headed parties, suggesting an intensification of barriers against women in these areas. Similar results for (mostly male) Muslim candidates indicate the presence of institutionalized demand-side barriers rather than gender-specific preferences and constraints.