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

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 counci...

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Main Authors: Raghabednra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo
Published: 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39126