Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Center for Contemporary South Asia

Yusuf Neggers ─ Enfranchising Your Own? Experimental Evidence on Bureaucrat Diversity and Election Bias

Friday, April 7, 2017

2 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Room S153 CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St,
Harvard University

Yusuf Neggers is a postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. He received a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University, and also holds an MSc in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and a BA in Mathematical Economic Analysis from Rice University. His research examines questions at the intersection of development economics and political economy, with a particular focus on the connections between political and bureaucratic accountability and the quality of public services.

Commentator: Simon Chauchard,  Simon Chauchard is an Assistant Professor in the Government Department at Dartmouth College, and a faculty affiliate in the Asia and Middle Eastern Studies program.

Read full paper here. 

Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics