determinants of local volunteer labor after the tsunami. Volunteer labor is the village public sector labor force for maintenance …, clean-up and renovation of public capital. While also examining the effects on volunteerism of village destruction and … suspension of local elections over the prior twenty or more years. Until 2006, village heads who call volunteer days were …

more freedom to go places and were less afraid to disagree with their husbands; the women participated more in village …

-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural … cadre status, but the magnitudes are not large and provide only a modest incentive to participate in village …-level government. The paper does not find evidence that households of village cadres earn significant rents from having a family member …

citizen engagement. Using text-as-data methods on an original corpus of village assembly transcripts from rural Tamil Nadu …, and receive a relevant response from state officials. Finally, the paper shows that although quotas for women on village …