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

increase substantially for women, but not for men, and that these effects are concentrated during the main agricultural season …

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

India. Using primary survey data, we find more program inefficiencies and leakages in village councils reserved for women …We use the nation-wide policy of randomly allocating village council headships to women to identify the impact of … highlight capacity building as necessary for bolstering the effectiveness of political quotas for women. …

analyze the impact of one of the world's largest anti-poverty programs, India's NREGS, on the intensity of Maoist conflict. We …

at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births …

This paper revisits the relationship between agricultural productivity shocks and the infant sex ratio in India and … India. We then show that a workfare program that decouples both wages and consumption from rainfall attenuates the …

Scheduled Tribes - on child labor in India. We estimate the effect of political reservation on child labor by exploiting the … Constitution of India. Using data from state and household level surveys on fifteen major Indian states, we find that at the …