Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India
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| Title: | Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India |
| Author: | Raghabednra Chattopadhyay; Esther Duflo |
| Issue Date: | 2007-10-05 |
| Abstract: | 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 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39126 |
| Other Identifiers: | hdl:1902.1/USBFNOMLAT |
| Keywords: | gender, decentralization, affirmative action, political economy, gender, decentralization, affirmative action, political economy |
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