India. Using primary survey data, we find more program inefficiencies and leakages in village councils reserved for women … reservations ; gender ; NREGA ; India …

political participation of women, using a regression discontinuity design on constituency level data from India. We find that …

The recent increase in the number of criminally accused politicians elected to state assemblies has caused much furor … in India. Despite the potentially important consequences and the widely divergent views, the implications of their … that the cost of electing criminally accused politicians on measures of economic activity is quite large. Using estimates …