(January 2012) - 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...

(May 2014) - We investigate whether women's political representation in state legislatures improves public provision of antenatal and childhood health services in the districts from which they are...

In this paper, we investigate the impacts of political decentralization and women reservation in local governance on institutional births and child mo…

This article explores the impact of female political representation in national parliaments on child health through a multilevel analysis. Using avail…

Exploiting a randomized natural experiment in India, we show that female leadership influences adolescent girls’ career aspirations and educational attainment. A 1993 law reserved leadership positi...

(October 2012) - Using state-level variation in the timing of political reforms, we find that an increase in female representation in local government induces a large and significant rise in docume...