-year school-based intervention in Haryana, India, that engaged adolescents in classroom discussions about gender equality. Using a …

female child mortality in India, or about 22,000 "missing girls" each year … breastfeeding decisions and test the model's predictions using survey data from India. First, we find that breastfeeding increases …

We examine the effect of regime change on privatization using the 2004 election surprise in India. The pro-reform BJP …

measure agency for 209 women in Haryana, India, first, through a semi-structured interview and, second, through a large set of …

This paper examines the intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes in India, a setting where discrimination …

India's child stunting rate is among the highest in the world, exceeding that of many poorer African countries. In this … patterns in the data indicate that India's culture of eldest son preference plays a key role in explaining the steeper birth … if he is the eldest son. Third, the India-Africa height deficit is largest for daughters with no older brothers, which …

patrilocality and concern for women's "purity" help explain the male-skewed sex ratio in India and China and low female employment … in India, the Middle East, and North Africa, for example. I also discuss why the sex ratio has become more male …

India's male-biased sex ratio has worsened over the past several decades. In combination with the increased … roughly half of the increase in the sex ratio that has occurred in India over the past thirty years. In addition, factors such …

religion and caste of bank officers and borrowers from a bank in India, and a rotation policy that induces exogenous matching …