Women Political Leaders, Corruption and Learning: Evidence from a Large Public Programme in India - Lecture by Vegard Iversen
| Dates: | 27 February 2014 |
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| Times: | 16:30 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | Brooks World Poverty Institute |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Alumni, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Vegard Iversen |
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India has a national policy of randomly allocating village council headships to women. We use this to identify the impact of female political leadership on the governance of projects under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. Using primary survey data, we find more programme inefficiencies in village councils reserved for women heads: inexperience make such councils more vulnerable to bureaucratic capture. When using a panel of audit reports, governance improves as female leaders accumulate experience. Women political leaders not only catch up in the delivery of public programmes, but generate governance dividends once initial, gendered disadvantages recede.
Speaker
Vegard Iversen
Role: Delhi-based microeconomist and Senior Research Fellow (Hon) - IDPM
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