agriculture. Yet, there is a lack of consensus on its ability to spur structural transformation in rural economies. We present …

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

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 …

alone. Finally, using calculations from J-PAL fieldwork, we show that in rural India, for example, ARD surveys are 80 …

learning outcomes. Our setting is middle-school grades in urban India, where a lottery provided winning students with a voucher …

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 …

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 …

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