Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … and the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … examination of the effect of educational gender gap was negative on output. The results are found to be robust to a number of …

regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman …This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the … subsequent election. This stems mainly from an increased probability that previous women candidates contest again, an important …

fifteen major states of India. The main finding is that, in thirteen of the fifteen states, there is evidence of a causal … gender of the previous child in three states, in a direction consistent with son-preference. Comparison of other covariate …

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … potential endogeneity of politician gender and the sample composition of births, we find that a one standard deviation increase …

In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large … random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed … survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of children. The age of children matters: The …

documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and … social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low … socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of a female birth and these daughters are less likely to die during …

This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find … steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses … in India of boys performing better. …

India. Using primary survey data, we find more program inefficiencies and leakages in village councils reserved for women …We use the nation-wide policy of randomly allocating village council headships to women to identify the impact of … highlight capacity building as necessary for bolstering the effectiveness of political quotas for women. …

at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births …