Removing Social Barriers to Women's Candidacy: A Field Experiment in Cambodia

• In Event: Gender, Elections, and Politics

Brief Overview

We test a new intervention in Cambodia to address social barriers to women's candidacy. We find that encouraging communities to identify women candidates led to an increase of 3.5 more female candidates on average in treatment areas.

Authors

• Cesi Cruz, University of California-Los Angeles

• Elayne Stecher, University of California-Los Angeles

• Jiyoung Kim, University of California-Los Angeles