Can Gender Quotas Improve Public Service Provision? Evidence from Indian Local Government

• In Event: Electoral Gender Quotas and Female Representation in India

Brief Overview

We examine the effect of randomly imposed electoral quotas for women in the local government of Mumbai and find that the perceived quality of local public goods is higher in constituencies with quota members

Authors

• Varun Karekurve Ramachandra, University of Rochester

• Alexander Lee, University of Rochester