This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes … education outcomes in the district from which the legislator is elected. We find no evidence of religious favoritism: Muslim … children do not benefit more from Muslim political representation than children from other religious groups. …

This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes … correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation … in legislator identity generated by close elections between Muslim and non-Muslim candidates. We find that increasing the …

and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as …

Education has been given high priority by India’s central and state governments and continues to grow fast. School …

combined with data on child health outcomes from the Demographic and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are applied … women living in rural India. …