A policy experiment in India suggests that placing female leaders in positions of power can dramatically change public attitudes.
The movie “Zero Dark Thirty” is unquestionably a gripping drama and credible contender in this year’s Oscar competition (nominated for five…
The UNDP publication Gender Equality in Elected Office in
Asia-Pacific: Six Actions to Expand Women’s Empowerment
provides an overview of…
What factors determine the nature of political opportunism in local government in South India? To answer this question, we study two types…
In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies. The standard way to model corruption is as an…
The introduction of electoral gender quotas in diverse contexts around the globe has attracted a great deal of scholarly and political…
This article evaluates a body of recent work that uses field and natural experiments to answer the question of whether informed voters can…
India Policy Forum is a joint venture of the Brookings Institution and the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) that aims…
If the Women’s Reservation Bill becomes law, then 181 out of 543 national legislators and 1370 out the 4109 state legislators will be women…
We exploit random assignment of gender quotas for leadership positions on Indian village councils to show that prior exposure to a female…