Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - 2023
We investigate the impact of the political representation of minority groups on the incidence of ethnic conflict in … India. We code data on Hindu-Muslim violence and Muslim political representation in India and leverage quasi …-random variation in legislator religion generated by the results of close elections. We find that the presence of Muslim legislators …