Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India

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Raghabednra Chattopadhyay; Esther Duflo
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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
Date issued
2007-10-05
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39126
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Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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hdl:1902.1/USBFNOMLAT
Keywords
gender, decentralization, affirmative action, political economy, gender, decentralization, affirmative action, political economy
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