This paper studies the impact of reservation for women on the performance of policy makers and on voters・perceptions of this performance. Since the mid 1990痴, one third of Village Council head positions in India have been randomly reserved for a woman: In these councils only women...

This paper studies the impact of reservation for women on the performance of policy makers and on voters' perceptions of this performance. Since the mid 1990's, one third of Village Council head positions in India have been randomly reserved for a woman: In these councils only women could be...