Do Gender Quotas Change Policy Outcomes? A Fresh Look at Random Reservations in Indian Local Government

• In Event: Political Economy of Representation

Brief Overview

We revisit the naturally occurring experiment of reservations for women officials, focusing on Rajasthan, where reservations are assigned by lottery. Have these reservations had detectable long- or short-term effects on a range of policy outcomes?

Authors

• Donald P Green, Columbia University

• Manu Singh, Columbia University

• Gaurav Sood, Unaffiliated