-disaggregated data set on India. Empowerment is measured by women's decision-making ability, mobility, financial autonomy, reproductive …Electrification has been shown to accelerate opportunities for women by moving them into more productive activities …. This paper investigates the causal link between electricity access and women's empowerment, using a large gender …

undertakes a talk-centered analysis of the gram sabha with a focus on examining the oral participation of women in general and … women affiliated with microcredit self-help groups who have access to an associational life. The qualitative analysis of 255 … gram sabha transcripts from four South Indian states finds that women associated with microcredit self-help groups employ a …

The paper explores whether one of the largest programs in the world for women's empowerment and rural livelihoods, the … Indira Kranti Patham in Andhra Pradesh, India, has had an impact on the economic and social wellbeing of households that …), invest in education, and increase total expenditures (for the poorest and poor). Women who participated in the program had …

support groups, literacy camps, adult education classes, and vocational training for rural women in several states of India …This paper uses primary data from rural north India to show that participation in a community-level female empowerment … disentangle the program's mechanisms, separately considering its effect on women who work, and those who do not work but whose …

Despite rapid economic growth, gender disparities in women's economic participation have remained deep and persistent … in India. What explains these huge gender disparities? Is it poor infrastructure, limited education, and gender … female entrepreneurs?This paper analyzes the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing …

productivity of non-farm entrepreneurship. Except for Ethiopia, women are less likely than men to become nonfarm entrepreneurs …. Women's nonfarm entrepreneurship isn' t strongly correlated with household composition or educational attainment, but is … especially prevalent amongst women who are the head of their household. Female-led firms are much smaller and less productive on …

underlying mechanisms and long-term effects have received little attention. This paper uses nation-wide data from India spanning … impacts on service quality are often negative, gender quotas are shown to increase the level and quality of women's political …

This paper examines whether and to what extent amendments in inheritance legislation impact women's physical and human … capital investments, using disaggregated household level data from India. The authors use inheritance patterns over three … the states of Maharashtra and Karnataka. The analysis shows that the amendment significantly increased daughters …

This paper investigates a women's self-help group program with more than 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest … rural areas of Northern India. The program has four streams of activity in micro-savings, agricultural enterprise training …

, India, this paper opens the "black box" of deliberation to examine the gendered and status-based patterns of influence … measures of deliberative influence, women are at a disadvantage relative to men; women are less likely to speak, set the agenda …, and receive a relevant response from state officials. Finally, the paper shows that although quotas for women on village …