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Replication Data for: Does Affirmative Action Worsen Bureaucratic Performance? Evidence from the Indian Administrative Service

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Title Replication Data for: Does Affirmative Action Worsen Bureaucratic Performance? Evidence from the Indian Administrative Service
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MS6ZTZ
 
Creator Bhavnani, Rikhil R.
Lee, Alexander
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Although many countries recruit bureaucrats using affirmative action, the effect of affirmative action recruits on bureaucratic performance has rarely been examined. Some worry that affirmative action worsens bureaucratic performance by diminishing the quality of recruits, while others posit that it improves performance by making recruits more representative of and responsive to the population. We test for these possibilities using unusually detailed data on the recruitment, background and careers of India's elite bureaucracy. We examine the effect of affirmative action hires on district-level implementation of MGNREGA, the world's largest anti-poverty program. The data suggest that disadvantaged group members recruited via affirmative action perform no worse than others.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Bureaucracy
Affirmative action programs
Public goods
 
Contributor Bhavnani, Rikhil
 
Source Bhavnani, Rikhil R.; Lee, Alexander, 2017, "Replication Data for: Local Embeddedness
and Bureaucratic Performance: Evidence from India", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/
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