Gender and Public Goods Provision in Tamil Nadu's Village Governments

• Tác giả: Kiran Gajwani
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 494.81 Altaic, Uralic, Hyperborean, Dravidian languages
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2014
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 313897
• Chủ đề: 1. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION; 2. CAPACITY BUILDING; 3. CITIZEN; 4. CITIZENS; 5. CULTURAL CHANGE

Tóm tắt

Using data from 144 village-level governments in India's Tamil Nadu state, this paper investigates political reservations for women and whether the gender of village government leaders influences the provision of village public goods. A knowledge test of village government presidents and a survey about the interaction between village presidents and higher-level officials reveal that female village government presidents have much lower knowledge of the village government system than do their male counterparts and have significantly less contact with higher-level government officials. Although male and female presidents provide similar amounts of some public goods, there is strong evidence that village governments led by a woman built fewer schools and roads two public goods that require relatively more contact and coordination with higher-level officials.