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Effect of Political Decentralization and Female Leadership on Institutional Births and Child Mortality in Rural Bihar, India
In this paper, we investigate the impacts of political decentralization and women reservation in local governance on institutional births and child mortality in the state of Bihar, India. Using the difference-in-differences methodology, we find a significant positive association between political decentralization and institutional births. We also find that the increased participation of women at local governance led to an increased survival rate of children belonging to richer households. We argue that our results are consistent with female leaders having policy preference for women and child well-being.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10780
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Public Goods
Health and Economic Development
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- Subject
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gender quota
political decentralization
institutional delivery
child
mortality
Bihar
India
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Kumar, Santosh
Prakash, Nishith
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2017
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- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Kumar, Santosh
- Prakash, Nishith
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2017
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