Partial Credit: Representational Bias against Female Legislators

• In Event: Women in Legislatures: Working Twice as Hard for Half the Credit

Brief Overview

In this paper, we propose the existence of attribution bias and argue that gender shapes how constituents evaluate politicians such that women officeholders receive less credit for their performance in office relative to men.

Authors

• Jaclyn Kaslovsky, Harvard University

• Jon C. Rogowski, Harvard University