Search Results - "Rikhil R. Bhavnani"

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Do Electoral Quotas Work after They Are Withdrawn? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India

by BHAVNANI, RIKHIL R Published in The American political science review (01.02.2009)

“...Do electoral quotas for women alter women's chances of winning elections after they are withdrawn? I answer this question by examining an unusual natural...”

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COUNTING CHICKENS WHEN THEY HATCH: TIMING AND THE EFFECTS OF AID ON GROWTH

by Michael A. Clemens Steven Radelet Rikhil R. Bhavnani Samuel Bazzi Published in The Economic journal (London) (01.06.2012)

“...Recent research yields widely divergent estimates of the cross-country relationship between foreign aid receipts and economic growth. We re-analyse data from...”

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Do the Effects of Temporary Ethnic Group Quotas Persist? Evidence from India

by Rikhil R. Bhavnani Published in American economic journal. Applied economics (01.07.2017)

“...Do electoral quotas for ethnic groups continue to improve their chances of winning elections after quotas are withdrawn? This is an important question since...”

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The Effects of Weather-Induced Migration on Sons of the Soil Riots in India

by Bhavnani, Rikhil R Lacina, Bethany Published in World politics (01.10.2015)

“...Migration is thought to cause sons of the soil conflict, particularly if natives tend to be unemployed. Using data from India, the authors investigate the...”

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Does Affirmative Action Worsen Bureaucratic Performance? Evidence from the Indian Administrative Service

by Bhavnani, Rikhil R Lee, Alexander Published in American journal of political science (01.01.2021)

“...Although many countries recruit bureaucrats using affirmative action, the effect of affirmative action recruits on bureaucratic performance has rarely been...”

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The Effects of Malapportionment on Cabinet Inclusion: Subnational Evidence from India

by Bhavnani, Rikhil R Published in British journal of political science (01.01.2018)

“...Malapportionment doubly penalizes people from relatively large electoral districts or constituencies by under-representing them in the legislature and in the...”

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Local Embeddedness and Bureaucratic Performance: Evidence from India

by Bhavnani, Rikhil R Lee, Alexander Published in The Journal of politics (01.01.2018)

“...While locally embedded bureaucrats may be more willing and able to enhance public goods provisioning in the places that they serve, they may also be more...”

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Fiscal Federalism at Work? Central Responses to Internal Migration in India

by Bhavnani, Rikhil R Lacina, Bethany Published in World development (01.05.2017)

“...•Internal migration should cause central governments to increase transfers to states.•Natural disaster-induced migration in India increases transfers to...”

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Voting for development? Ruling coalitions and literacy in India

by Bhavnani, Rikhil R Jensenius, Francesca R Published in Electoral studies (01.12.2019)

“...Across the world, governments skew the distribution of state resources for political gain. But does such politicisation of resource allocation affect...”

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Nativism and Economic Integration Across the Developing World: Collision and Accommodation

by Bhavnani, Rikhil R Lacina, Bethany
31.08.2018

“...Migration and nativism are explosive issues in Europe and North America. Less well-known is the tumult that soaring migration is creating in the politics of...”

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Ancillary Studies of Experiments: Opportunities and Challenges

by Baldwin, Kate Bhavnani, Rikhil R Published in Journal of globalization and development (01.06.2015)

“...“Ancillary studies of experiments” are a technique whereby researchers use an experiment conducted by others to recover causal estimates of a randomized...”