We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … in women's political representation results in a 1.5 percentage point reduction in neonatal mortality. Women politicians …

political participation of women, using a regression discontinuity design on constituency level data from India. We find that … female incumbents are more likely than male incumbents to re-contest and that there is a decline in the entry of new women … intensification of barriers against women in these areas. Similar results for (mostly male) Muslim candidates indicate the presence of …

regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman …This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the … subsequent election. This stems mainly from an increased probability that previous women candidates contest again, an important …