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 …

bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn …

institutional births and child mortality in the state of Bihar, India. Using the difference-in-differences methodology, we find a … participation of women at local governance led to an increased survival rate of children belonging to richer households. We argue …

, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority representation on the frequency of visits to … legislative assemblies mandated by the Constitution of India. Using data from state and village level surveys on fifteen major …

crime in India. We exploit the quasi-random variation in the outcome of close elections between candidates with and without …

minorities (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) in India on their occupational choices, as defined by skill level, during the …

state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India that arises from national policies that cause …

We investigate the public-private wage differential in India using nationally representative micro data. While the …

earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set - the India Human Development Survey, 2005 - to …India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both …