constituency development fund, to investigate when legislators exert more effort on behalf of their constituents. Using data from … India, they find that legislator effort is significantly lower in constituencies where voters are more attached to political … issues. These findings have implications for the evaluation of constituency development funds. They also provide a new answer …

efficiency. In India, the current government flagship program on universal primary education organizes both locally elected … leaders and parents of children enrolled in public schools into committees and gives these groups powers over resource … aware of the existence of these committees and their potential for improving education. This paper evaluates three different …