Female Leadership Raises Aspirations and Educational Attainment for Girls: A Policy Experiment in India
Exploiting a randomized natural experiment in India, we show that female leadership influences adolescent girls’ career aspirations and educational attainment. A 1993 law reserved leadership positions for women in randomly selected village councils. Using 8453 surveys of adolescents aged 11 to 15 an...
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| Language: | en_US |
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82636 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6105-617X |