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Are female leaders good for education? : Evidence from India
This paper shows that the gender of politicians affects the educational levels of individuals who
grow up in the districts where these politicians are elected. Increasing female political
representation by 10 percentage points increases the probability that an individual attains
primary education in urban areas by 6 percentage points, which is 21% of the difference in
primary education attainment between the richest and the poorest Indian states. Caste also
matters, as female politicians who won seats reserved for lower castes and disadvantaged tribes
are those who mainly have an effect. In addition, both the gender and caste of politicians
determine who benefits more from their policies: in urban areas female politicians increase
educational achievements of those of their gender and caste. A unique dataset collected on
politicians in India is matched with individual data by cohort and district of residence. The
political data allow the identification of close elections between women and men, which yield
quasi-experimental election outcomes used to estimate the causal effect of the gender of
politicians
CFTs in rotating black hole backgrounds
We use AdS/CFT to construct the gravitational dual of a 5D CFT in the
background of a non-extremal rotating black hole. Our boundary conditions are
such that the vacuum state of the dual CFT corresponds to the Unruh state. We
extract the expectation value of the stress tensor of the dual CFT using
holographic renormalisation and show that it is stationary and regular on both
the future and the past event horizons. The energy density of the CFT is found
to be negative everywhere in our domain and we argue that this can be
understood as a vacuum polarisation effect. We construct the solutions by
numerically solving the elliptic Einstein--DeTurck equation for stationary
Lorentzian spacetimes with Killing horizons.Comment: 20 + 13 pages, 3 appendices. (Updated to match the content of
published version. One extra appendix added.
Competition between hydrogen bonding and electric field in single-file transport of water in carbon nanotubes
Recent studies have shown the possibility of water transport across carbon
nanotubes, even in the case of nanotubes with small diameter (0.822 nm). In
this case, water shows subcontinuum transport following an ordered 1D structure
stabilized by hydrogen bonds. In this work, we report MD simulations describing
the effect of a perpendicular electric field in this single-file water
transport in carbon nanotubes. We show that water permeation is substantially
reduced for field intensities of 2-3 V/nm and it is no longer possible under
perpendicular fields of 4 V/nm.Comment: Accepted in Molecular Simulatio
Are female leaders good for education? : Evidence from India
This paper shows that the gender of politicians affects the educational levels of individuals who grow up in the districts where these politicians are elected. Increasing female political representation by 10 percentage points increases the probability that an individual attains primary education in urban areas by 6 percentage points, which is 21% of the difference in primary education attainment between the richest and the poorest Indian states. Caste also matters, as female politicians who won seats reserved for lower castes and disadvantaged tribes are those who mainly have an effect. In addition, both the gender and caste of politicians determine who benefits more from their policies: in urban areas female politicians increase educational achievements of those of their gender and caste. A unique dataset collected on politicians in India is matched with individual data by cohort and district of residence. The political data allow the identification of close elections between women and men, which yield quasi-experimental election outcomes used to estimate the causal effect of the gender of politicians.
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