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Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014

We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We …

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The Power of TV : Cable Television and Women's Status in India

Oster, Emily F. - 2008

behaviors. This paper explores the effect of the introduction of cable television on gender attitudes in rural India. Using a … the results are not driven by pre-existing differential trends. These results have important policy implications, as India …

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Fertility Decline and Missing Women

Jayachandran, Seema - 2014

India's male-biased sex ratio has worsened over the past several decades. In combination with the increased … roughly half of the increase in the sex ratio that has occurred in India over the past thirty years. In addition, factors such …

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Suicide and Property Rights in India

Anderson, Siwan - 2014

This paper studies the impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates in India. Using state level … more suicides among both men and women in India. Using individual level data on domestic violence we find evidence that … increased property rights for women did increase the incidence of wife beating in India. A model of intra-household bargaining …

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Missing Unmarried Women

Anderson, Siwan - 2015

. India has the largest proportion of missing adult women who are without a husband, followed by the countries in East Africa …

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Bridging Education Gender Gaps in Developing Countries : The Role of Female Teachers

Muralidharan, Karthik - 2013

Recruiting female teachers is frequently suggested as a policy option for improving girls' education outcomes in developing countries, but there is surprisingly little evidence on the effectiveness of such a policy. We study gender gaps in learning outcomes, and the effectiveness of female...

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On Her Own Account : How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender Norms

Field, Erica - 2019

Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and influence gender norms? In collaboration with Indian government partners, we provided rural women with individual bank accounts and randomly varied whether their wages from a public workfare program were directly deposited into...

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Integration Costs and Missing Women in Firms

Miller, Conrad - 2019

Where social norms favor gender segregation, firms may find it costly to employ both men and women. If the costs of integration are largely fixed, firms will integrate only if their expected number of female employees under integration exceeds some threshold. Motivated by a simple model of firm...

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Women as Policy Makers : Evidence from a India-Wide Randomized Policy Experiment

Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra; Duflo, Esther - 2022

This paper uses political reservations for women in India to study the impact of women's leadership on policy decisions …

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Economic Opportunities and Gender Differences in Human Capital : Experimental Evidence for India

Jensen, Robert T. - 2010

Gender differences in health and education are a concern for a number of developing countries. While standard theory predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though...

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