Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India
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This data set uses political reservations for women in India to study the impact of women's leadership on policy decisions. Using a dataset we collected on 265 village councils in West Bengal and Rajasthan, we compare the type of public goods provided in reserved and unreserved village's councils. Data sets based upon information provided by GP Pradhans, local villagers, and the 1991 Indian Census.
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- Authors
- Chattopadhyay, R., & Duflo, E.
- Affiliations
- Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IN)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- ORCID
- Duflo, Esther
- Venue
- Econometrica
- Publisher
- The Econometric Society
- Published
- 2004-09
- Volume
- 72
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1409-1443
- ISSN
- 0012-9682 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-0262
- OpenAlex
- W3123997958
- Cited by
- 2,284
- References
- 14
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- FWCI
- 69.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- Locations
- Econometrica (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Harvard Dataverse (submittedVersion)
- DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Harvard Dataverse (public-domain)
- Harvard Dataverse
- Funders
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Politics and Representation
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Keywords
- women's political representation, reservation policy, women in local government, village councils, public goods provision, women in leadership, local decision-making, gender quotas
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