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 …

India, including 53,030 mothers and 113,708 children, collected in 2015-16.Outcomes are measured as multidimensional …

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 …

This study analyses employment transitions of working-age women in India. The puzzling issue of low labour force … participation despite substantial economic growth, strong fertility decline and expanding female education in India has been studied … factors in explaining the declining workforce participation of women in India. We also explore other individual and household …

microfinance institution (MFI) that was set up as a randomized controlled trial and accompanied by household panel surveys …

those in stable marriages, experience a relative increase in empowerment. We test these predictions using double …

households characteristics. We find lower conditional gaps in both upward/downward mobility in rural India for the disadvantaged …

An important constraint in studying intergenerational education mobility for India is the lack of data that contain … father-son matched data that is representative of the entire adult male population in India. Using this father-son matched … data, we study the extent of intergenerational mobility in educational attainment in India since 1940s and provide an …