Jensenius, Francesca Refsum. 2015. "Development from Representation? A Study of
Quotas for the Scheduled Castes in India." American Economic Journal: Applied
Economics, 7(3): 196-220.
This paper estimates the constituency-level development effects of quotas for the
Scheduled Castes (SCs) in India, using a unique dataset of development indicators for
more than 3,100 state assembly constituencies in 15 Indian states in 1971 and 2001.
Matching constituencies on pretreatment variables from 1971, I find that 30 years of
quotas had no detectable constituency-level effect on overall development or
redistribution to SCs. Interviews with politicians and civil servants in 2010 and 2011
suggest that these findings can be explained by the power of political parties and the
electoral incentives created by the quota system. (JEL D72, J15, O15, O17, Z13)
The Scheduled Castes(SCs) are various officially designated groups of historically disadvantaged indigenous people in India. The terms are recognized in the Constitution of India and the various groups are designated in one or other of the categories. During the period of British rule in the Indian subcontinent, they were known as the Depressed Classes. The percentage of people in scheduled castes is essentially the percentage of people in the lower part of Indian society. 也就是说Scheduled Castes(SCs)是印度的一个阶层比较低的群体。
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