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 …

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 …

Violence against women is a problem worldwide, with economic costs ranging from 1-4% of global GDP. Using variation in … the intensity of government-mandated lock-downs in India, we show that domestic violence complaints increase 0.47 SD in …

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 …

. 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 …

environments across two distinct societies: the Maasai in Tanzania and the Khasi in India. One unique aspect of these societies is … Maasai women. Interestingly, this result is reversed amongst the Khasi, where women choose the competitive environment more …

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 many studies have examined the link between women's wages or labor force … overcome these problems, we provided three years of recruiting services to help young women in randomly selected Indian …

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

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 …