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SUMMARY:Brownbag - Abhishek Chakravarty
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DESCRIPTION:Title: Changing the Narrative: A Gender-Targeted Schooling Ex
 pansion and Women Leaders in India\n\nAbstract: We examine the impact of
  a national primary schooling expansion with an accompanying gender awar
 eness campaign on the likelihood that women are elected to state governm
 ents in India. We find that voters in treated districts are substantiall
 y likelier to elect women shortly after the programme begins\, and this 
 effect persists years later. The effect is strongest in districts where 
 the programme increased economic growth and most improved educational in
 frastructure\, consistent with increased voter emphasis on competence re
 lative to candidate gender\, which benefits both male and women candidat
 es who are more competent at the cost of less competent male candidates.
  As further evidence of this reweighting in voter preferences in treated
  districts\, voters are also less likely to vote for the leading party i
 n the state\, sacrificing government patronage\, and reduce anti-incumbe
 nt voting\, suggesting greater satisfaction with ruling politicians. The
  increase in women’s winning probability in treated districts manifests 
 exclusively during polarised elections when party affiliation is more sa
 lient for voters than candidate gender\, suggesting that the programme d
 oes also decrease voters’ overall bias against women leaders\, but condi
 tional on their party loyalties.
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Hanson Room\, Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manchester
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