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Fostering peer learning among local elected representatives

Project Active from 1 Apr 2024 to 31 Mar 2025 Sustainable Growth

This project, in collaboration with the Government of Bihar, India, aims to organise peer groups for over 2,400 local politicians and experimentally assess their impact. It focuses on whether politicians from marginalised groups benefit more from these networks and explores barriers to their formation.

Researchers

Apurva Bamezai

PhD Candidate in Comparative Politics, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

M R Sharan

Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland

Siddharth George

Assistant Professor of Economics, National University of Singapore

Siddharth Hari

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Virginia Tech

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