City A.M.:
Instilling competitive gender quotas could end the Crisis of the Mediocre Men
16 August 2017
…A paper in the latest American Economic Review (AER) provides an intriguing perspective on the issue.
Tim Besley of the LSE and two Swedish colleagues carried out a very detailed empirical analysis of elections in Sweden over a 20 year period. The title effectively summarises their work: Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man.
Related publications
“Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man: Theory and Evidence from Sweden”
Timothy Besley, Olle Folke, Torsten Persson, Johanna Rickne. American Economic Review, vol. 107, no. 8, August 2017. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20160080&&from=f