Pro: Impact of political reservation on anthropometric and educational outcomes

This study exploits the political reservation based on caste in India as a natural experiment to assess changes in overall and relative levels of child anthropometric and educational outcomes. In a broader sense, this aims to.explore the question of whether affirmative action in political participation enhances health and educational outcomes of the unprivileged castes. I will use DHS data for India and map it with data with switch in the caste of locally elected representative following the policy. Thereafter, I use a DID approach to examine if the policy changed anthropometric and educational outcomes generally and specifically for lower caste children: outcome=β0+β1 prepost+β2 reservation+β3 prepost∗reservation+controls+e