plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV …

India's male-biased sex ratio has worsened over the past several decades. In combination with the increased … availability of prenatal sex-diagnostic technology, the declining fertility rate is a hypothesized factor. Suppose a couple …. This paper empirically measures the relationship between desired fertility and the sex ratio. Standard survey questions on …

across cohorts within programs, we show that women entering cohorts with no female peers are 11.9pp less likely to graduate … the probability of on-time graduation for women by 4.6pp. These gender peer effects function primarily through changes in …

Men outnumber women as undergraduate economics majors by three to one nationwide. Even at the best research … universities and liberal arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one or more. The Undergraduate Women in Economics Challenge … uncomplicated and inexpensive interventions can substantially increase the interest of women to major in economics …

We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions …, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility … on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that changes in fertility patterns affect carbon emissions through three …

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975 … impact on the household saving rate in both India and Korea, even after controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged … and youth dependency ratios and income. It has a negative impact in India, where the bride's side has to pay substantial …

paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and …

The COVID-19 pandemic led to stark reductions in economic activity in India. We employ CMIE's Consumer Pyramids …