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Essays In Labor And Development Economics, Stephen Daniel O'Connell
Essays In Labor And Development Economics, Stephen Daniel O'Connell
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This dissertation is comprised of two chapters that investigate the long-term effects of a quota policy for women in local government in India.
In the first chapter, "Political Inclusion and Educational Investment," I investigate whether political empowerment can affect the human capital investment decisions of children. By using exogenous variation in the implementation of the policy, nationally-representative survey data allow me to estimate effects on educational enrollment in a geographic discontinuity design using adjacent areas on either side of a state border as counterfactuals receiving different levels of exposure to the quota policy.
In this paper, I find a sizable …