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

@article{citeulike:2435042, abstract = {This paper uses political reservations for women in India to study the impact of women's leadership on policy decisions. Since the mid-1990's, one third of Village Council head positions in India have been randomly reserved for a woman: In these councils only women could be elected to the position of head. Village Councils are responsible for the provision of many local public goods in rural areas. 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 Councils. We show that the reservation of a council seat affects the types of public goods provided. Specifically, leaders invest more in infrastructure that is directly relevant to the needs of their own genders.}, author = {Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra and Duflo, Esther}, citeulike-article-id = {2435042}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/3598894}, journal = {Econometrica}, keywords = {political\_economics}, number = {5}, pages = {1409--1443}, posted-at = {2008-03-11 19:43:33}, priority = {0}, title = {Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/3598894}, volume = {72}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2435042 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2435042 N2 - This paper uses political reservations for women in India to study the impact of women's leadership on policy decisions. Since the mid-1990's, one third of Village Council head positions in India have been randomly reserved for a woman: In these councils only women could be elected to the position of head. Village Councils are responsible for the provision of many local public goods in rural areas. 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 Councils. We show that the reservation of a council seat affects the types of public goods provided. Specifically, leaders invest more in infrastructure that is directly relevant to the needs of their own genders. IS - 5 JF - Econometrica EP - 1443 TI - Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India VL - 72 SP - 1409 KW - political_economics AU - Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra AU - Duflo, Esther PY - 2004/// UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/3598894 ER -