appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical …

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 … in women's status. We find significant increases in reported autonomy, decreases in the reported acceptability of beating … 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 …

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 …This paper studies the impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates in India. Using state level …

. India has the largest proportion of missing adult women who are without a husband, followed by the countries in East Africa … women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is … more extreme for women in these regions compared to developed countries. We provide systematic estimates of the excess …

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 … status quo). Women in a random subset of villages were also trained on account use. In the short run, relative to women just …

Where social norms favor gender segregation, firms may find it costly to employ both men and women. If the costs of …

This paper uses political reservations for women in India to study the impact of women's leadership on policy decisions … for a woman: in these councils only women could be elected to the position of head. Village Councils are responsible for … the type of public goods provided in reserved and unreserved Villages Councils. We show that women invest more in …