Das, Sabyasachi; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Saroy, Rajas - 2017
We examine how overall delivery of public goods (i.e., efficiency) is affected by affirmative action in elections, i …, affirmative action may increase electoral competition and consequently, improve provision of public goods. This happens because in … quotas for a caste group (OBCs) increased provision of public goods in villages with high OBC population shares. We show that …