Nandwani, Bharti; Roychowdhury, Punarjit - 2023
empowerment including employment, within-household decision-making, mobility, etc. We also document positive impacts of British …This paper examines the long-term link between British colonialism and women empowerment in India. We compare women … colonial rule. Controlling for selective annexation using a specific policy, we find that women who live in areas that were …