Does political background of leaders matter for development?

25 July 2017

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Notes from the Field

IGC Research on India

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The objective of this paper is to investigate whether a legislator's political background matters for development/provision of public goods. This project studies this issue at the sub-national level in India by compiling biographies of legislators describing how they entered politics and measuring changes in provision of public goods in their constituencies.

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