Rohini Pande

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data on the Indian rural branch expansion program to provide empirial evidence on the issue of lack of access to finance, which is often cited as a key reason why poor people remain poor.

TL;DR: It is shown that female leadership influences adolescent girls’ career aspirations and educational attainment and no evidence of changes in young women’s labor market opportunities is found, which suggests that the impact of women leaders primarily reflects a role model effect.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used data on the Indian rural branch expansion program to provide empirial evidence on the issue of lack of access to finance, which is often cited as a key reason why poor people remain poor.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors exploit random assignment of gender quotas for leadership positions on Indian village councils to show that prior exposure to a female leader is associated with electoral gains for women and that women are more likely to stand for, and win, elected positions in councils required to have a female chief councilor in the previous two elections.

Abstract: Recent years have seen a remarkable expansion in economists' ability to measure corruption. This in turn has led to a new generation of well-identified, microeconomic studies. We review the evidence on corruption in developing countries in light of these recent advances, focusing on three questions: how much corruption is there, what are the efficiency consequences of corruption, and what determines the level of corruption? We find robust evidence that corruption responds to standard economic incentive theory but also that the effects of anticorruption policies often attenuate as officials find alternate strategies to pursue rents.