We use two waves of nationally representative India Human Development Survey to examine factors driving the cooking … fuel choice in urban and rural India, separately. We utilize a random effects multinomial logit model that controls for … spillover effects in rural areas. Moreover, the bargaining power of women that is associated with economic status (e …

Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates … virginity, across societies and over time, can be influenced by socio-economic factors such as male income inequality, gender …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and … social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low … socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of a female birth and these daughters are less likely to die during …

children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in … India. We further examine various channels through which prenatal sex selection might affect girls' outcomes. Using repeated … parities. An examination of the various mechanisms linking between prenatal sex selection and children outcomes suggests that …

India, including 53,030 mothers and 113,708 children, collected in 2015-16.Outcomes are measured as multidimensional …This paper provides a framework for analyzing constraints that apply specifically to women, which theory suggests may … have negative impacts on child outcomes (as well as on women). We classify women's constraints into four dimensions: (i …

pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic status of children and women in India. We show that among very … young children (aged 0–5 years), the number of coal units in the district in the month and year of birth significantly … among adult women. Impacts on anemic status are driven by the growth of PM2.5 pollution attributable to emissions from coal …

Detecting gender discrimination among children in the intra-household allocation of goods from household surveys has … expenditures in India. Contrary to most previous research, I find evidence of discrimination against girls. Results at the all-India … in the analysis at the state level. In general, girls experience gender discrimination especially from age 10 onwards …

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 …

market participation through gender lens. Results show that women's education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work …In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible … level data of India for the year 2011–12 is used to examine the relationship between educational attainment and labour …

that the 'intersectionality' between gender and caste leads to increased gender inequality among professionals in India …Using a field experiment in India where patients are randomly assigned to rank among a set of physicians of the same … gender but with different castes and years of experience, we show that the differences in patients' physician choices are …