women, such as policies that subsidize the diffusion and use of best practice birth control technologies. Evaluation of the …

This paper shows that participation in a community-level female empowerment program in India significantly increases … primary data to disentangle the program's mechanisms, separately considering its effect on women who work, and those who do …-participants relative to women in untreated districts. …

In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large … random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed … survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of children. The age of children matters: The …

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … in women's political representation results in a 1.5 percentage point reduction in neonatal mortality. Women politicians …

Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute …

minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 …

There is limited empirical evidence on whether unrestricted cash social assistance to poor pregnant women improves …

however all likely to improve female schooling. We offer evidence from India consistent with our theoretical analysis. …