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Health and the political agency of women
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma - 2011
We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … Indian Parliament. -- political identity ; gender ; mortality ; health ; social preferences ; India …
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Path-breakers : how does women's political participation respond to electoral success?
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - 2013
regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman … margin in India where a substantial number of incumbents do not contest re-election. There is no significant entry of new …
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Gender, crime and punishment: evidence from women police stations in India
Amaral, Sofia; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Prakash, Nishith - 2021
We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender- based violence. Using administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated with an increase in police reports of crimes...
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Religion and abortion : the role of politician identity
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - 2018
Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India …
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Women's inheritance rights reform and the preference for sons in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Brulé, Rachel; Roy, Sanchari - 2017
India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3 …
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Women legislators and economic performance
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Min, Brian; … - 2018
India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to isolate causal effects. We find significantly higher growth in …
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