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 …

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 …

learning outcomes, and the effectiveness of female teachers in reducing these gaps using a large, representative, annual panel … data set on learning outcomes in rural public schools in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. We report six main results in …-gender teacher on student attendance, suggesting that the mechanism for the impact on learning outcomes is not on the extensive …

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