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Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India

Raghabendra Chattopadhyay; Esther Duflo · Econometrica 72(5), 1409–1443 · 2004

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Raghabendra Chattopadhyay; Esther Duflo
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DOI 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2004.00539.x
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2026-09-01

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EstablishedExploiting the random reservation of village council leadership for women in West Bengal and Rajasthan, Chattopadhyay and Duflo found that women leaders invested more in public goods linked to women's stated priorities, such as drinking water.