of men to women in marriage markets - on individual consumption of married men and women, and indicate some of the ways … benefits women and used the positive association between brideprice and polygyny as evidence. Relying on D&S models of marriage … polygyny may be harmful to women. Furthermore, the positive association between brideprice and polygyny does not necessarily …

There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there … India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to isolate causal effects. We find significantly higher growth in … economic activity in constituencies that elect women and no evidence of negative spillovers to neighbouring male …

sex diagnosis ; ultrasound ; gender ; India ; triple difference estimator ; differences in differences … at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births …

Illegal trafficking of women is a result of their disadvantageous position in the society that is often reflected in … increasing preference for son and neglect for daughters. Multiple reports point to India as country confronted with both higher … sex ratio and shortage of girls is associated with their illegal trafficking in India. Using panel data of 29 Indian …

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 …

on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial …This study on the economics of gender differences examines whether the mining industry acts as a blessing or curse for … women's well-being and economic status. The analysis focuses on the impact of proximity to mineral deposits and active mines …

regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman …This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the … subsequent election. This stems mainly from an increased probability that previous women candidates contest again, an important …

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 …

The champions of financial inclusion regret women’s lack of access to credit, while critics of financialization, by … contrast, claim that women have become overly indebted. But little is actually known about women’s debt/credit in quantitative … terms, mostly due to a lack of data. This descriptive paper uses first-hand survey data from southern India disaggregated by …