How Do Gender Quotas Impact Electoral Accountability?

• In Event: Elections and Electoral Accountability

Brief Overview

We develop and estimate a structural model of electoral accountability in the context of randomly imposed gender quotas in India. Our results highlight the welfare implications of gender quotas independent of their descriptive consequences.

Authors

• Zuheir Desai, Princeton University

• Varun Karekurve Ramachandra, University of Rochester

• Sergio Montero, University of Rochester