Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Amanda De Albuquerque
Author-Name-First: Amanda De
Author-Name-Last: Albuquerque
Author-Email: amanda@redeaponte.org
Author-Workplace-Name: Rede A Ponte
Author-Name: Frederico Finan
Author-Name-First: Frederico
Author-Name-Last: Finan
Author-Email: ffinan@berkeley.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UC Berkeley and National Bureau of Economic Research
Author-Name: Anubhav Jha
Author-Name-First: Anubhav
Author-Name-Last: Jha
Author-Email: anubhav.jha@ashoka.edu.in
Author-Workplace-Name: Ashoka University
Author-Name: Laura  Karpuska
Author-Name-First: Laura 
Author-Name-Last: Karpuska
Author-Email: laukarpuska@gmail.com
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Rochester and Insper Institute of Education and Research
Author-Name: Francesco Trebbi
Author-Name-First: Francesco
Author-Name-Last: Trebbi
Author-Email: ftrebbi@berkeley.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UC Berkeley and National Bureau of Economic Research
Title: Decoupling Taste-Based versus Statistical Discrimination in Elections
Abstract: We present a methodology for decoupling taste-based versus statistical discrimination in political behavior. We combine a flexible empirical model of voting, featuring vertical and horizontal candidate differentiation in gender, ability, and policy positions, with a large-scale micro-targeted electoral experiment aimed at increasing female candidate vote shares. Our structural econometric approach allows to separately identify preference parameters driving taste-based discrimination and beliefs parameters driving statistical discrimination through expectations about ability and policy positions of female politicians. Our application to Brazilian municipal elections uncovers substantial levels of taste-based and statistical discrimination. Counterfactual political campaigns show promise in reducing both.
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Creation-Date: 20250922
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Number: 156
Handle: RePEc:ash:wpaper:156