appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical …

Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and influence gender norms? In collaboration with … Indian government partners, we provided rural women with individual bank accounts and randomly varied whether their wages … status quo). Women in a random subset of villages were also trained on account use. In the short run, relative to women just …

We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We …

expanding a business, conditional on entry, are also substantially higher for women. However, there is one area in which female … composition of female employment. Counterfactual simulations indicate that removing all excess barriers faced by women …

predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may … weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though many studies have examined the link between women's wages or labor force … overcome these problems, we provided three years of recruiting services to help young women in randomly selected Indian …

Reducing gender-specific commuting barriers in developing countries has complex and diverse effects on women's labor … dynamics. We study a program that offers free bus rides for women in several Indian states (the Pink Slip program) using a … synthetic difference-in-differences approach to shed light on labor supply and time use decisions of women. We observe decreased …

in developing economies can signal their wealth, and thereby increase their social status, by withdrawing their women … status. The steep increase in female education in recent decades could paradoxically have increased FLFNP in India even …

of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a … for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … were stronger among women from religious or caste groups with social norms that restrict female mobility …

government health insurance program that entitles 46 million poor individuals to free hospital care in Rajasthan, India. Females … in utilization, but effects are modest and limited to girls and young women. In the presence of gender bias, increasing …

, there is little evidence on the impacts of these policies on women, who are likely to be especially vulnerable, in lower …-income countries. We conduct a large phone survey and leverage India's geographically-varying containment policies to estimate the … association between both the pandemic and its containment policies, and measures of women's well-being, including mental health …