Recent studies demonstrate that female leaders can improve gender-specific outcomes along multiple dimensions through better provision of public goods and legislative changes that benefit women. Using quasi-random exposure to female leaders elected to state legislatures in India, this paper shows that there may also be an unintended effect: an increase in rural women’s reported experience of physical spousal abuse. We find that a plausible channel...
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2022/06/29
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS10113
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1
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2022/06/29
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Disclosed
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Women’s Political Representation and Intimate Partner Violence
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