Table 8.

Political participation.

	Respondent woman voted in the last election	Respondent woman voted because it is her right to vote	Respondent woman voted and made this decision herself	Respondent woman has ever participated in mahila gram sabha	Respondent woman has ever participated in gram sabha	Respondent woman believes that the gram panchayat will take positive action to demands/suggestions made by woman/SHG	Political participation score
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)
PANEL A
OLS	0.058***	0.058***	0.053**	0.107***	0.079***	0.094***	0.075***
	(0.009)	(0.015)	(0.021)	(0.019)	(0.014)	(0.033)	(0.010)
Observations	2,733	2,733	2,733	2,733	2,733	2,733	2,733
R-squared	0.262	0.160	0.207	0.101	0.087	0.129	0.228
PANEL B
NNM	0.041***	0.072***	0.071***	0.098***	0.065***	0.089***	0.073***
	(0.012)	(0.019)	(0.022)	(0.015)	(0.012)	(0.031)	(0.009)
Observations	2719	2719	2719	2719	2719	2719	2719
Mean	0.867	0.260	0.390	0.092	0.067	−0.412	0.305

Notes: ***Indicates statistical significance at p < 0.01, ** at p < 0.05, and * at p < 0.10.