Artikel

Gender quotas in development programming: Null results from a field experiment in Congo

We examine whether gender quotas introduced by development agencies empower women. As part of a development program, an international organization created community management committees in 661 villages to oversee village level program expenditures. In a randomly selected half of these villages the organization required the committees to have gender parity. Using data on project choice from all participating villages, data on decision making in a later development project (105 villages), and data on citizen attitudes (200 villages), we find no evidence that gender parity requirements empower women. We discuss potential reasons for the null result, including weakness of these social interventions in terms of the engagement they generate, their time horizon, and the weak delegation of responsibilities.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Journal of Development Economics ; ISSN: 0304-3878 ; Volume: 133 ; Year: 2018 ; Pages: 326-345 ; Amsterdam: Elsevier

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Other Economic Systems: Political Economy; Legal Institutions; Property Rights; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Regional Studies
Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
Thema
Gender quotas
Experimental methods
Development aid
Political attitudes and behavior

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
van der Windt, Peter
Humphreys, Macartan
de la Sierra, Raul Sanchez
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Elsevier
ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
(wo)
Amsterdam
(wann)
2018

DOI
doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2018.02.006
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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • van der Windt, Peter
  • Humphreys, Macartan
  • de la Sierra, Raul Sanchez
  • Elsevier
  • ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Entstanden

  • 2018

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