Intersectionality and Representation in Campaign Finance

• In Event: Minority Representation and Outcomes in American Democracy

Brief Overview

We use new data on the race and gender of campaign contributors to (1) estimate race and gender parity in money in politics, and (2) estimate the effect of candidate race and gender on the race and gender distribution of their campaign funds.

Authors

• Jake Grumbach, Princeton

• Alexander Laurence Sahn, University of California-Berkeley