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dc.contributor.authorDeininger, Klaus
dc.contributor.authorNagarajan, Hari K.
dc.contributor.authorSingh, Sudhir K.
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-26T08:53:38Z
dc.date.available2021-05-26T08:53:38Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationDeininger, K., Nagarajan, H. K., & Singh, S. K. (2019). Women’s political leadership and economic empowerment: evidence from public works in India. Journal of Comparative Economics, 48(2), 277-291. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j. jce.2019.12.003en_US
dc.identifier.issn01475967
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11718/23900
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2019.12.003
dc.description.abstractDespite recent advances, women trail men in political participation, especially in developing countries where the long-term economic benefits from empowering women politically have not been well-researched. We use data from 163 villages of 12 main Indian states to explore whether requiring that village leadership positions be held by women (political reservation) affected uptake of economic opportunities via the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Reservation triggered increases in women's demand for work, program participation, and access to financial services that were sustained beyond the period of female political leadership. Enhanced female participation in program oversight, civic engagement, and electoral participation are plausible channels for such effects and political and economic empowerment seem to be complementary.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Comparative Economicsen_US
dc.subjectPolitical reservationen_US
dc.subjectFemaleen_US
dc.subjectNREGSen_US
dc.subjectJob carden_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectIndiaen_US
dc.titleWomen’s political leadership and economic empowerment: evidence from public works in Indiaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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