articleEconometricaJul 19, 2004GREEN OA

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

RCRaghabendra ChattopadhyayEDEsther Duflo

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Indexed incrossref

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.

Citation impact

2,211
total citations
FWCI
53.99
Percentile
100%
References
26
Citations per year

Authors

2

Topics & keywords

Topics
Keywords
  • Economics
  • Randomized experiment
  • Political science
  • Psychology
  • Statistics
  • Mathematics
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Gender equality
No related works found for this paper.

Funding