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 …

households in India. The guarantee insures household earnings, replacing women as added workers and shutting down a motive for …, the labor force participation of married women and total time worked by their husbands. The guarantee accounts for up to …, the guarantee reduces the command of household earnings by women, and, thereby, their well-being …

. India has the largest proportion of missing adult women who are without a husband, followed by the countries in East Africa … women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is … more extreme for women in these regions compared to developed countries. We provide systematic estimates of the excess …

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 …

more suicides among both men and women in India. Using individual level data on domestic violence we find evidence that … increased property rights for women did increase the incidence of wife beating in India. A model of intra-household bargaining …This paper studies the impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates in India. Using state level …

We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India … with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not … increase after the reforms, we find significant evidence that more women-owned establishments were created in the unorganized …

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

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 …