The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities: Evidence from India

Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith

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“…2 Pande (2003) reports of an increase in job quotas for SCs in places with more SC politicians (but no effect on spending on education or welfare spending for SCs), whereas Chin and Prakash (2011) find no effects of SC representation on poverty. Both studies report strong effects of representation for Scheduled Tribes on spending.…”

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Development from Representation? A Study of Quotas for the Scheduled Castes in India

Jensenius

2015

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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This paper estimates the constituency-level development effects of quotas for the Scheduled Castes (SCs) in India, using a unique dataset of development indicators for more than 3,100 state assembly constituencies in 15 Indian states in 1971 and 2001. Matching constituencies on pre-treatment variables from 1971, I find that 30 years of quotas had no detectable constituency-level effect on overall development or redistribution to SCs in reserved constituencies. Interviews with politicians and civil servants in 2010 and 2011 suggest that these findings can be explained by the power of political parties and the electoral incentives created by the quota system.

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“…Two important exceptions are Pande (2003) and Chin and Prakash (2011), who studied the effects of quotas in state assemblies on public spending by state governments and state-level poverty.…”

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Development from Representation? A Study of Quotas for the Scheduled Castes in India

Jensenius

2015

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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“…There are also several recent papers on employment quota programs outside of the United States. Recent studies by Howard and Prakash (2012), Chin andPrakash (2011), andPrakash (2009), for example, have examined the effect of Indian minority hiring quotas on employment outcomes and occupational choice of favored groups. These studies find that these programs increased the probability of finding a salaried job for some types of favored groups, and that this improved employment outcome was associated with higher household consumption expenditures and higher skilled occupational choice.…”

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Can Hiring Quotas Work? The Effect of the Nitaqat Program on the Saudi Private Sector

Peck

2017

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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“…Moreover, studies of women’s political influence (Ban and Rao 2008; Clots-Figueras, 2007, 2011) have considered relatively few indicators of investments in schooling. This district-level analysis extends others in India focused on the reservation of local seats for women (Chattopadhyay and Duflo 2004) as well as state and local seats for SC/ST legislators (Chin and Prakash 2011; Munshi and Rosenzweig 2008; Pande 2003). 5 This analysis helps to shed some light on the reasons for inequities in the distribution of a mandated public good in a setting where inequities in human resources can exceed those across the world’s nations.…”

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Women’s Political Empowerment and Investments in Primary Schooling in India

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Using a national district-level dataset of India composed of information on investments in primary schooling (data from the District Information Survey for Education [DISE, 2007/8]) and information on demographic characteristics of elected officials (data from the Election Commission of India [ECI, 2000/04]), we examined the relationship between women’s representation in State Legislative Assembly (SLA) seats and district-level investments in primary schooling. We used OLS regressions adjusting for confounders and spatial autocorrelation, and estimated separate models for North and South India. Women’s representation in general SLA seats typically was negatively associated with investments in primary-school amenities and teachers; women’s representation in SLA seats reserved for under-represented minorities, i.e., scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, typically was positively associated with investments in primary schooling, especially in areas addressing the basic needs of poor children. Women legislators’ gender and caste identities may shape their decisions about redistributive educational policies.

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The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities: Evidence from India

Cited by 16 publications

References 28 publications

Development from Representation? A Study of Quotas for the Scheduled Castes in India

Development from Representation? A Study of Quotas for the Scheduled Castes in India

Can Hiring Quotas Work? The Effect of the Nitaqat Program on the Saudi Private Sector

Women’s Political Empowerment and Investments in Primary Schooling in India

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