Gender, caste, and public goods provision in Indian village governments:

摘要: "This paper seeks to contribute the literature on village governance and local public goods provision. Using data from 144 village-level governments in India's Tamil Nadu state, we examine whether gender caste of government leaders influence In particular, examine: 1) are provided accordance with or preferences; 2) provision differs based knowledge level leader. We find evidence different preferences for between men women, Scheduled Caste (SC) non-SC persons. Additionally, a test regarding reveals that female SC presidents receive lower scores relative male presidents, women scoring lowest overall. have little effect by hypothesize this may be due their spouses. context provide more drinking water access—a location-specific good—to SC-inhabited areas." authors' abstract