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Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

This paper uses political reservations for women in India to study the impact of women's leadership on policy decisions. In 1998, one third of all leadership positions of Village Councils in West Bengal were randomly selected to be reserved for a woman: in these councils only women could be ele...

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Main Author: Esther Duflo & Raghabendra Chattopadhyay
Format: Printed Book
Published: BREAD Working Paper No. 001 2003
Online Access:http://10.26.1.76/ks/001923.pdf

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