This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes … correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation … in legislator identity generated by close elections between Muslim and non-Muslim candidates. We find that increasing the …

This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes … education outcomes in the district from which the legislator is elected. We find no evidence of religious favoritism: Muslim … children do not benefit more from Muslim political representation than children from other religious groups. …

This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes … with constituency level voter preferences or events that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation in legislator … identity generated by close elections between Muslim and non-Muslim candidates. We find no evidence of religious favoritism …

This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes … correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation … in legislator identity generated by close elections between Muslim and non-Muslim candidates. We find that increasing the …

Muslim children in India face substantially lower mortality risks than Hindu children. This is surprising because one … birth-spacing, and are a minority group in India that may be expected to live in areas that have relatively poor public … attention in India, higher mortality amongst Hindus has gone largely unnoticed. This paper considers this seeming puzzle in …