This paper is the first to show that excess mortality among adult women can be partly explained by strong preference … for male children, the same cultural norm widely known to cause excess mortality before birth or at young ages. Using … pooled individual-level data for India, the paper compares the age structure and anemia status of women by the sex of their …

This paper analyzes four years of qualitative data observing a large participatory anti-poverty project in India as it …

the first randomized controlled trial-based evidence on this question. Households in rural Bihar, India, were offered low …

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

Toilet ownership in India has grown in recent years, but open defecation can persist even when rural households own … latrines. There are at least two pathways through which social norms inhibit the use of toilets in rural India: (i) beliefs … purity that dissociate latrines from cleanliness. A survey in Uttar Pradesh, India, finds a positive correlation between …

This paper documents the changing structure of wages in India over the post-reform era, the roughly two-decade period … Indian state. While real wages have risen across India over the past two decades, the increase has been greater in rural …

Self-help groups (SHGs) are the most common form of microfinance in India. The authors provide evidence that SHGs … technology of providing public goods. Using first-hand data on SHGs in India, the paper tests the prediction of the model and …

Female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and 2011 are surprisingly low and have stagnated …