Email: hasanain@lums.edu.pk
Institution / Affiliation : Lahore University of Management Sciences
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Email: golden@ucla.edu
Institution / Affiliation : University of California Los Angeles
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Email: jbussell@berkeley.edu
Institution / Affiliation : University of California Berkeley
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Brief 07: Do Party Politics Undermine Ethnic Quotas?
This study employs two different research designs to test the impact of ethnic quotas. First, the researchers take advantage of a peculiarity in the quota system, which creates a so-called “natural experiment.” Villages take turns reserving seats for disadvantaged castes, and during each election cycle certain pairs of villages have a nearly random chance of being selected or not for quotas. While this “natural experiment” is not a true field experiment, the researchers present evidence that this technique comes close to an experimental randomization.
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