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Decoupling Taste-Based versus Statistical Discrimination in Elections / Amanda de Albuquerque, Frederico Finan, Anubhav Jha, Laura Karpuska, Francesco Trebbi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- de Albuquerque, Amanda.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w33859.
- NBER working paper series no. w33859
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2025.
- Summary:
- We present a methodology for decoupling taste-based versus statistical discrimination in political behavior. We combine a flexible empirical model of voting, featuring vertical and horizontal candidate differentiation in gender, ability, and policy positions, with a large-scale micro-targeted electoral experiment aimed at increasing female candidate vote shares. Our structural econometric approach allows to separately identify preference parameters driving taste-based discrimination and beliefs parameters driving statistical discrimination through expectations about ability and policy positions of female politicians. Our application to Brazilian municipal elections uncovers substantial levels of taste-based and statistical discrimination. Counterfactual political campaigns show promise in reducing both.
- Notes:
- May 2025.
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