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Women’s political reservation, early childhood development and learning in India
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This paper analyses the long-term impacts of reservation of seats for women in the local body elections at the village level in India on children’s learning outcomes in rural Andhra Pradesh. Using the random rotation of seats reserved for women over different election cycles – 1995; 2001; and 2006, and three rounds of a panel dataset – 2002; 2007; and 2009, we analyse the impact of exposure to political reservation during critical periods of childhood. The paper shows that the reservation po...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding agency for:
Pathak, Y
Macours, K
Grant:
R8544
R8544
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- Publisher:
- Young Lives Publisher's website
- Series:
- Working Papers
- Place of publication:
- http://www.younglives.org.uk/publications/WP
- Publication date:
- 2013-01-01
- ISBN:
- 9781909403239
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:7965
- Deposit date:
- 2014-02-03
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- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Notes:
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This paper was presented at a conference on Inequalities in Children’s Outcomes in Developing Countries hosted by Young Lives at St Anne’s College, Oxford on 8-9 July 2013.
http://www.younglives.org.uk/news/news/children-inequalities-younglives-conference-2013
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