This paper explores the interactions between state and society in rural India within a major community-based development program. We use…
This impact evaluation investigates whether strengthening the link between local taxation and urban services can revitalize the social…
Bureaucracies often post staff to better or worse locations, ostensibly to provide incentives. Yet we know little about whether…
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…
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…
While women have the legal right to equal participation in politics in almost every country around the world, they remain vastly…