the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct …-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help … programs despite modest global research evidence for micro-finance impacts on nominal incomes. Second, results argue strongly …

terms, mostly due to a lack of data. This descriptive paper uses first-hand survey data from southern India disaggregated by …

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 …

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 … empowerment. The findings are consistent with a mechanism in which exposure reduces bias, allowing for updated beliefs about the …

India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to isolate causal effects. We find significantly higher growth in …

the likelihood of women being elected to state legislatures in India. We show that the program increased voter …

pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic status of children and women in India. We show that among very … increasing demand for energy that emerging market economies like India face. …