In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India, we ran an exam … assigned child "characteristics" (age, gender, and caste) to the cover sheets of the exams to ensure that there is no … discrimination. Interestingly, we find that the discrimination against low caste students is driven by low caste teachers, while …

century. Since kinship rules varied by caste, language, religion and region, we construct sex-ratios by these categories at …This paper explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth … the district-level using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East) and Madras (South). We find …

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 …

Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and influence gender norms? In collaboration with … private sectors. In the long run, gender norms liberalized: women who received direct deposit and training became more … Indian government partners, we provided rural women with individual bank accounts and randomly varied whether their wages …

We study the role of marriage for women's intergenerational mobility during the Ming-Qing (1368-1911) period. Using …

models to deal with measurement error in wealth reports. Our various results show that men and women in the U.S. marry …

Previous research has shown that norms around the role of women in society could help explain the gender gap in … combined with birth certificates we uncover important heterogeneity in the transmission of gender biases within the family. We … find that gender role norms can explain the lower performance of girls in mathematics only in relatively affluent White …

Discrimination against women has been alleged in hiring practices for many occupations, but it is extremely difficult … players in 1970 but are 25% today. We ask whether women were more likely to be advanced and/or hired with the use of blind …

-based discrimination by men, and non-labor market outcomes through the influence of current norms of other women …We study how reported sexism in the population affects American women. Fixed-effects and TSLS estimates show that …

discrimination over the lifecycle. We show race discrimination against prime-age black job applicants that diminishes into middle age … time on younger black resumes, suggesting they use negative heuristics or taste-based discrimination. Screeners demonstrate … levels-based statistical discrimination, believing that younger black applicants have worse computer skills and more gaps in …