Rajaraman, Indira; Gupta, Manish - In: Indian Growth and Development Review 5 (2012) 2, pp. 108-130
Purpose – This paper aims to be nested in the empirical literature examining the impact of gender quotas for elected posts to local government councils ( panchayats ) in India. Gender quotas apply at the level of both head ( sarpanch , randomly assigned) and member (uniformly across councils)....