CORNELIA

This project has received funding from the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions under grant agreement No. 897497.

The research project CORNELIA aims to examine the complicated relationship between politics, gender and crime such as corruption. Globally less than a quarter of national parliamentarians are women. Meanwhile corruption, in its various forms, persists and seems only weakly constrained by democracy. Previous literature finds a negative relationship between (perceived) corruption and female participation in government using cross-country data or developing country data. However, there are very few studies exploring the effect of female politicians on corruption and other crimes in developed countries. This project aims to cover this gap and to contribute to the ongoing debate about the importance of female political representation in developed countries.

Papers connected with this project:

Foresta, A. (2022). Female Mayors and Corruption Scandals: an RDD Approach with Italian Data. Working paper soon.

Foresta, A., (2022). Lady Justice: The impact of female judges on trials' verdicts in US . (Paper)

Foresta, A., (2022). Beyond Reasonable Doubt: The impact of jurors' political affiliation on jury trials in US. (Paper) Submitted.

Conferences:

Seminar series in Applied MicroEconomics (University of York), Seminar series in Political Economics (University of York), 2022 Applied Young Economist Webinar, 2022 Meeting of the European Public Choice Society (EPCS2022), Scottish Economic Society Conference (SES2022), 62nd Annual Conference of the Italian Economic Association (SIE2021), XIII RIDGE FORUM (LACEA America Latina Crime and Policy Network), XXXIII Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Public Economics (SIEP2017).