Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/307210 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17386
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
How can women's representation improve in countries that do not embrace legislated gender quotas? We study municipal elections in Turkey during 2009-2019. A conservative dominant party, Erdogan's AKP, is often challenged by a Kurdish party that promotes gender equality in electoral lists. Exploiting within-municipality variation, we find that the Kurdish party winning leads AKP to increase its share of female candidates by 25 to 30% in the next election. Other opposition parties winning has a substantially lower impact. Our results suggest that one party empowering women can help reducing gender gaps in lists across-the-board.
Subjects: 
women political representation
electoral competition
JEL: 
D72
J16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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