networks. We first study 75 villages in Karnataka, 43 of which were exposed to microfinance after we first collected detailed …

in making progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India lags behind other South Asian countries. The … responsiveness of the improvement in the MDGs to increases in per capita income is usually low in Asia and particularly in India …This paper analyzes the effects of the reforms initiated in India following the balance of payments (BOP) crisis of …

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 …

Where social norms favor gender segregation, firms may find it costly to employ both men and women. If the costs of …

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 …

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 …

behaviors. This paper explores the effect of the introduction of cable television on gender attitudes in rural India. Using a … in women's status. We find significant increases in reported autonomy, decreases in the reported acceptability of beating … the results are not driven by pre-existing differential trends. These results have important policy implications, as India …