Dataset Persistent ID
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doi:10.15139/S3/FEW2LM |
Publication Date
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2020-09-29 |
Title
| Replication Data for: Pipeline or Pipedream: Gender Balance Legislation’s Effect on Women’s Presence in State Government |
Author
| McQueen, Shannon (George Washington University) - ORCID: 0000-0002-7398-2397 |
Contact
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McQueen, Shannon (George Washington University) |
Description
| Can legislation encouraging women's political involvement impact women's desire to run for elected office? Eleven states have passed legislation to promote equal gender representation on appointed government boards, and many argue this legislation will also develop a pipeline of women candidates to run for elected office. This paper is the first scholarly work to assess if gender balance legislation increases the number of women candidates and women legislators within a state. I use a nonparametric generalization of the difference-in-differences estimator and find very little evidence that gender balance legislation significantly impacts women’s representation at the state level. Results are consistent across multiple outcome variables and different model specifications, including two-way fixed effects, generalized synthetic control, and synthetic control models. The insignificant impact of gender balance legislation speaks to the need to thoroughly investigate which institutional reforms adequately feed the female candidate pipeline. (2020) |
Subject
| Social Sciences |
Keyword
| Women in politics
State politics
Gender politics
Gender policy
Elections |
Related Publication
| McQueen, Shannon. 2021. "Pipeline or Pipedream: Gender Balance Legislation’s Effect On Women’s Presence In State Government". State Politics & Policy Quarterly 21 (3): 243-65 doi: 10.1017/spq.2020.8 https://doi.org/10.1017/spq.2020.8 |
Notes
| This dataset underwent an independent verification process that replicated the tables and figures in the primary article. For the supplementary materials, verification was performed solely for the successful execution of code. The verification process was carried out by the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Depositor
| McQueen, Shannon |
Deposit Date
| 2020-08-11 |
Data Sources
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