-making, the experiment markets stoves to husbands or wives in turn at randomly varying prices. We find that women - who bear … suggest that if women cannot make independent choices about household resource use, public policy may not be able to exploit … gender differences in preferences to promote technology adoption absent broader social change …

effects on the adult outcomes of women, but not of men. Women with 20% higher rainfall (relative to normal local rainfall) in … eventual benefits for adult women's socioeconomic status are most strongly mediated by improved schooling attainment, which in …

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 … cross section, and move gender attitudes of individuals in rural areas much closer to those in urban areas. We argue that …

Although previous research has not always found that boys and girls are treated differently in rural India, son …-biased stopping rules imply that estimates of the effect of gender on parental investments are likely to be biased because girls …

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

provide new evidence, from a randomized control trial conducted in rural Orissa, India (one of the poorest places in India …

-5) veterans and of their adult children. Younger veterans who had been severely wounded in the war left the farm sector, becoming … their wealth declined by 37-46%. War wounds were correlated with children's socioeconomic and mortality outcomes in ways …

children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …

,000 children born between 1979 and 1987 in the Canadian province of Manitoba. These children are followed until 2006, and their … records are linked to provincial registries with outcomes data. We compare children with health conditions to their own …