How Descriptive Representation Increases Labor Market Participation

• In Event: Experiments for Solving Real-World Problems

Brief Overview

We show in a survey experiment that the feeling of political inclusion changes perceptions of societal discrimination and creates empowerment materializing in increased willingness to participate in the labor market among a sample of U.S. women.

Authors

• Emily A. West, University of Pittsburgh

• Dominik Duell, University of Essex