The redistributive effects of political reservation for minorities
Subtitle: evidence from India
By: Aimee Chin, Nishith Prakash
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16509; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16509.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Description: "We examine the impact of political reservation for disadvantaged minority groups on poverty.  To address the concern that political reservation is endogenous, we take advantage of the state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India generated by national policies that cause reservations to be revised and the time lags with which revised reservations are implemented.  Using data on sixteen major Indian states for the period 1960-2000, we find that increasing the share of seats reserved for Scheduled Tribes significantly reduces poverty while increasing the share of seats reserved for Scheduled Castes has no impact on poverty.  Political reservation for Scheduled Tribes has a greater effect on rural poverty than urban poverty, and appears to benefit people near the poverty line as well as those far below it"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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