Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a India-Wide Randomized Policy Experiment
Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a India-Wide Randomized Policy Experiment
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女性作为政策制定者：来自印度范围内随机政策实验的证据
DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.288974
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发表时间：
2001
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E. Duflo
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作者：
Raghabendra Chattopadhyay;E. Duflo
本文利用印度妇女的政治保留来研究妇女领导对政策决定的影响。1998年，西孟加拉村委员会所有领导职位中有三分之一是随机选出的，专门留给妇女：在这些委员会中，只有妇女才能被选为村长。乡村委员会负责提供农村地区的许多地方公共产品。使用我们收集的165个村议会的数据集，我们比较了保留和非保留村议会提供的公共产品的类型。我们发现，妇女更多地投资于与农村妇女需求直接相关的基础设施（水、燃料和道路），而男子更多地投资于教育。如果村理事会的领导人是妇女，妇女就更有可能参与决策过程。
This paper uses political reservations for women in India to study the impact of women's leadership on policy decisions. In 1998, one third of all leadership positions of Village Councils in West Bengal were randomly selected to be reserved for a woman: in these councils only women could be elected to the position of head. Village Councils are responsible for the provision on many local public good in rural areas. Using a data set we collected on 165 Village Councils, we compare the type of public goods provided in reserved and unreserved Villages Councils. We show that women invest more in infrastructure that is directly relevant to the needs of rural women (water, fuel, and roads), while men invest more in education. Women are more likely to participate in the policy-making process if the leader of their village council is a woman.