large dams in India. To account for endogenous placement of dams we use GIS data and the fact that river gradient affects a … estimates suggest that large dam construction in India is a marginally cost-effective investment with significant distributional …

randomized allocation of political quotas in India and the unanticipated introduction of board quotas in Norway have allowed …

among children in India, that gender bias in mortality is larger in Sub‐Saharan Africa than in China and India, and that …

law in India to test this prediction empirically. The principal finding is that minority representation has increased …

economy since its liberalization from the mid 1990s. This empirical study confirms that domestic output of India was strongly … influenced by global shocks. The findings are not surprising as India’s trade and financial integration with the rest of the …

The excess female mortality in India and other South Asian countries is no longer contentious. Less known are the …

in rural India. We separate the independent, relative effects of characteristics of individual women and their households … National Family Health Survey (NFHS) India, 1992–1993. We use an ordered logit model, with dummy variables for state of …

The “missing women” dilemma in India has sparked interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of …

politician corruption that we conducted in North India is remarkably consistent with our theoretical predictions. …

This paper uses data on elected village councils in South India to examine the political economy of public resource …