women's well-being and economic status. The analysis focuses on the impact of proximity to mineral deposits and active mines … on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial … variation in the occurrence of mineral deposits across districts. Results indicate that women's outcomes improve in the vicinity …

This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of … capabilities across a range of dimensions are then developed for some 6000 women and used to estimate a number of propensity score …-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help …

We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third … sender's lies to the receiver also do not affect lying behavior. Even more striking, senders whose identity is revealed to …

schooling, and how that affects subsequent labour market outcomes of men and women. Using a nationally representative …

pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic status of children and women in India. We show that among very … among adult women. Impacts on anemic status are driven by the growth of PM2.5 pollution attributable to emissions from coal …

) as cooking fuel affects the time spent in cooking and employment activities for Indian rural women. We instrument use of … average is calculated leaving the concerned household. We find no impact of LPG on the probability of women participating in … spent in cooking and employment is mostly driven by married women. …