Are Female Leaders Good for Education? Evidence from India
Are Female Leaders Good for Education? Evidence from India
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DOI：
10.1257/app.4.1.212
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发表时间：
2012-01-01
影响因子：
6.2
通讯作者：
Clots-Figueras, Irma
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作者：
Clots-Figueras, Irma
本文表明，政客的性别会影响在这些政客当选的地区长大的个人的教育水平。收集的印度政客的独特数据集与按群体和居住地区划分的个人数据进行匹配。政治数据可以识别女性和男性之间势均力敌的选举，从而产生准实验性的选举结果，用于估计政客性别的因果效应。女性政治代表性的提高会增加个人在城市地区获得初等教育的可能性，但在农村地区则不然，在整个样本中也不会。
This paper shows that the gender of politicians affects the educational levels of individuals who grow up in the districts where these politicians are elected. A unique dataset collected on politicians in India is matched with individual data by cohort and district of residence. The political data allow the identification of close elections between women and men, which yield quasi-experimental election outcomes used to estimate the causal effect of the gender of politicians. Increasing female political representation increases the probability that an individual will attain primary education in urban areas, but not in rural areas, and not in the sample as a whole.