experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion for villagers in south India to highlight behavioral features of … microcredit. Conditional on borrowing from any source, women with present-biased preferences are more likely than others to borrow …

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set the agenda for the attainment of universal literacy by 2015 primarily to be … growing literature on the difficulties of attaining MDGs, there is hardly any attempt to assess the role of private sector in … this respect. Using India as an important case in point, we intend to bridge this gap of the literature. Results using a …

We examine educational transmission between fathers (mothers) and daughters in India for daughters born during 1962 …') educational distribution. We also find that "Equality of Opportunity" remains an elusive goal for India. Not only the probability …

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 … increasing demand for energy that emerging market economies like India face. …

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

) 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. …

Using two nationally representative datasets from household surveys conducted in India in 2005 and 2012, the present … endogenous in India because parents continue to have children until they have a son. To redress this potential endogeneity, we …

-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United … improve with own education. Our theoretical predictions match the data for India at low levels of women's education but over … division of labor shows that norms can act as a binding constraint, producing much smaller increases in women's labor supply to …

We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance rights for women modifies the historic preference for sons in … India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3 …

effects of women's local electoral success on subsequent female candidacy at higher levels of government in India from 1977 to …Gender gaps in leadership roles may be reduced by increasing the number of women in career stages that typically … precede high-status positions. This can occur by increasing the supply of experienced women, inspiring new female candidates …