Despite income growth, fertility decline, and educational expansion, women's labor force participation in rural India …

, especially for government programs like the National Rural Livelihoods Mission in India. This study aims to provide empirical … first study to estimate the annual income effects of a government-run rural livelihoods program in India, and it shows …

unique survey of 618 firms in three of the largest cities in the state of Madhya Pradesh (India)-Bhopal, Indore, and Gwalior … employment in urban India is amenable to policy intervention, and that it is not necessary to wait for culture to change …

-household bargaining. This paper uses primary data on women's social networks in Uttarakhand, India; the modal woman has only three friends …