Title: Powerful women and aspirations in India

Type Dataset Beaman, Lori, Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra, Duflo, Esther, Pande, Rohini, Topalova, Petia (2017): Powerful women and aspirations in India. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/PXV79W

Authors: Beaman, Lori (Northwestern University) ; Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra (Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta) ; Duflo, Esther (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Pande, Rohini (Harvard University) ; Topalova, Petia (International Monetary Fund) ; Beaman, Lori (Northwestern University) ; Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra (Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab) ; Duflo, Esther (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Pande, Rohini (Harvard University) ; Topalova, Petia (International Monetary Fund) ;

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Summary

We exploit random assignment of gender quotas for leadership positions on Indian village councils to show that prior exposure to a female leader is associated with electoral gains for women. After ten years of quotas, women are more likely to stand for, and win, elected positions in councils required to have a female chief councilor in the previous two elections. We provide experimental and survey evidence on one channel of influence—changes in voter attitudes. Prior exposure to a female chief councilor improves perceptions of female leader effectiveness and weakens stereotypes about gender roles in the public and domestic spheres.

More information

• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/PXV79W

Subjects

• Social Sciences

Dates

• Publication date: 2017
• Submitted: March 03, 2017
• Updated: June 24, 2019

Rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 CC0 1.0

Format

electronic resource

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