progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India lags behind other South Asian countries. The responsiveness … of the improvement in the MDGs to increases in per capita income is usually low in Asia and particularly in India …This paper analyzes the effects of the reforms initiated in India following the balance of payments (BOP) crisis of …

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 …