Women legislators and economic performance
利用印度各邦议会竞争性选举数据，发现选举女性议员的选区经济活动增长显著更高，且无负面溢出效应，机制上女性议员更高效、更少腐败、更少政治投机。
Abstract There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there is no evidence of how this has influenced economic performance. We investigate this using data on competitive elections to India’s state assemblies, leveraging close elections to isolate causal effects. We find significantly higher growth in economic activity in constituencies that elect women and no evidence of negative spillovers to neighbouring male-led constituencies, consistent with net growth. Probing mechanisms, we find evidence consistent with women legislators being more efficacious, less corrupt and less vulnerable to political opportunism.