This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes …

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal …

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 …

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female …

India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to isolate causal effects. We find significantly higher growth in …

in India. We find that religious minority leaders (Muslims) improve coordination, while majority leaders (Hindus) do not …

at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births …

more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes …

India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3 …

Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India …