1 Girls' Aspirations [60 points] The dataset aspirationsdta is from the paper by Beaman et a1. {2009}. In class, we studied the original paper on the effects of random exposure to female leaders on voters' perceptions and stereotypes. In a followup study, Female Leadership Raises Aspirations and Educational Attainment for Girls: A Policy Espcriment in India, the authors study the impact of the policy on girls' aspirations. Please get familiar with both papers. (a) 1What is the reasoning behind the idea that exposure to female leaders could change girLs' aspira tions? [4 points] [b] What is the proportion of teenage girls and the proportion of teenage boys that want to get married before 18 years old? W'hat do you think could explain these gender differences? [4 points] {c} What is the proportion of teenage girls and the proportion of teenage boys who want to have a higher education job? Is this the difference you would expect? What do you think could explain this pattern? [4 points] During the time of the survey designed to collect data on teenagers\" aspirations, each village council could be randomly assigned to one of the following three categories: never reserved, reserved only once (in the 1998 elections} or reserved twice (both in the 1998 and 2003 elections). Now, you will use the following equation to estimate effect of 1:01de reservation on boys and girls aspirations: \"91:1; = o: 419 1R1\" 419 2R2" + yfemaiew + 51{R1u x femciew] +52(RQv x female-U) + 5w (1) where y\