This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The …

to examine the effects of having a young child on mothers' employment in urban India over 1983-2011. The analysis also …Since the 1990s, India has seen robust economic growth, rising wages, steady fertility decline, increased urbanization … policy research on women's employment in India. The discussion is situated in the normative construction of motherhood and …

, 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 …

-disaggregated data set on India. Empowerment is measured by women's decision-making ability, mobility, financial autonomy, reproductive …

Caste is a persistent driver of inequality in India, and it is generally analyzed with government-defined broad …

tied to selected quality of the provided good. Evidence from a randomized trial in rural India in which groups of …

farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a … India faced lower educational mobility compared with the sons in rural China in the 1970s to 1990s. To understand the role … genetic correlations in China, but not in India. Fathers' nonfarm occupation and education were complementary in determining a …

societies. This paper examines whether dowry impacted household decision making and resource allocation in rural India during …