ALBA HUIDOBRO

Stanford University

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ABOUT ME

I am Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford Impact Labs and Department of Political Science, Stanford University. I obtained my Ph.D. from Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) in July 2022. As a graduate student, I was visiting researcher at the European University Institute, Nuffield College at the University of Oxford, and the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

My research interest lies at the intersections of comparative politics, elites’ political behavior and gender. Specifically, I explore gender inequalities in the political sphere by analyzing how political leaders’ attitudes and personal characteristics define women’s selection into politics and governments. Combining observational and experimental data, my dissertation demonstrates that governments’ negotiation dynamics could help explain a significant share of the gender gap in top political positions.

Part of this work has been published in The Journal of Politics and the European Journal of Political Research.

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RESEARCH

PUBLICATIONS

Huidobro, Alba, and Albert Falcó-Gimeno (forthcoming). Women Who Win but Do Not Rule: The Effect of Gender in the Formation of Governments. The Journal of Politics.

Beltrán, Javier, Aina Gallego, Alba Huidobro, Enrique Romero and Lluís Padró (2021). Male and Female Politicians on Twitter: A Machine Learning Approach. European Journal of Political Research, 60(1), 239-251.

Huidobro, Alba, Yeimy Ospina, Marta Curto-Grau, and Aina Gallego (2019). La formación de Gobiernos municipales: una nueva base de datos. Revista Española de Ciencia Política, 49, 109-128.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Partners in Government: Politicians’ Gender Preferences in Coalition Formation

Do Electoral Quotas Worsen Politician Quality? Theory and evidence to the contrary

With Rikhil R. Bhavnani and Soledad Artiz Prillaman

We March, She Runs: Feminists Movements and Women’s Political Representation

With Nerea Gándara-Guerra

Proxy politics: measuring and evaluating the cooptation of women elected representatives in India

With Soledad Artiz Prillaman and Deepak Singhania

Gender and Political Ambition: Evidence from a survey of politicians

Young politicians in government formation processes

With Albert Falcó-Gimeno

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CURRICULUM VITAE

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DATABASES

The formation of local governments: a new database.

Dataset

*How to cite the data:

Huidobro, A., Ospina, Y., Curto-Grau, M. y Gallego, A. (2019). La formación de Gobiernos municipales: una nueva base de datos. Revista Española de Ciencia Política, 49, 109-128.

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