Getting on the Grid: How Public Service Formalization Shapes Political Participation in Urban India

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Brief Overview

We leverage a novel and large-scale field experiment conducted in the slums of Mumbai, India to investigate how formalizing citizens’ access to water shapes their political participation

Authors

• Anjali Bohlken, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Nikhar Gaikwad, Columbia University

• Gareth Nellis, University of California San Diego