Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a India-Wide Randomized Policy Experiment

By Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo. 2001

159 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Safety Research

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In Gender Studies

1. V. Rao
2. Rohini Pande
3. Esther Duflo
4. B. Agarwal
5. T. Besley
6. Lupin Rahman
7. Timothy J. Besley
8. Ebonya L. Washington

In Safety Research

1. Rohini Pande
2. B. Agarwal
3. Esther Duflo
4. V. Rao
5. T. Besley
6. L. Pritchett
7. Cheryl R. Doss
8. N. Bau

Citations in the corpus

• THE POLITICS OF PUBLIC GOOD PROVISION: EVIDENCE FROM INDIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS (2004, background): “In columns (5) and (6), Table 2 we examine whether village level measures of political power underlie the statistical significance of the village fixed effects.”
• Political Selection and the Quality of Government: Evidence from South India (2005, unknown): “Politician characteristics, as included in column (9), do not explain increased or reduced participation in public works programs.”
• Does Women's Proportional Strength Affect their Participation? Governing Local Forests in South Asia (2010, background): “For instance, in a study of two Indian states women pradhans were found to prioritize different public goods than male pradhans (Chattopadhyay & Dufflo, 2004), and although the performance of first-time pradhans tended to be underrated by the villagers due to a negative perception bias about women,…”
• Democratization, Decentralization and the Distribution of Local Public Goods in a Poor Rural Economy (2001, unknown): “Ghatak and Ghatak (2000) and Chattopadhyay and Duflo (2001) focus on groups defined by caste and gender, which are readily measured and have been historically underrepresented in village governance, in the Indian state of West Bengal after the local democratic reforms. Ghatak and Ghatak (2000) studi”
• Rule making in community forestry institutions: The difference women make (2009, background): “…of local councils in India differ from male heads in the public goods they favour: women are found more likely to prioritize issues seen as falling largely in women's domain, such as drinking water and sanitation (e.g., Chattopadhyay and Duflo, 2004; Gandhi and Shah, 1991; Vijaylakshmi, 2004).”
• Scaling Up and Evaluation (2003, background): “The remedial education program hires a young woman from the children’s community to provide remedial education in government schools to children who have reached grades 2, 3, or 4 without having mastered the basic grade 1 competencies.”