Garikipati, Supriya and Uma Kambhampati. 2020. “Leading the Fight Against the Pandemic: Does Gender ‘Really’ Matter?” Centre for Economic Policy Research, Covid Economics 26, 5 June 2020: 1-16
Since the start of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the relationship between national female leaders and their effectiveness in handling the COVID-crisis has received a lot of media attention. In this paper we scrutinise this association more systematically. We ask if there is a significant and systematic difference by gender of the national leader in the […]