We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … in women's political representation results in a 1.5 percentage point reduction in neonatal mortality. Women politicians …

This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes …

This paper investigates the effect of a food subsidy programme in India on child malnutrition by addressing the … respect to the unusually high incidence of malnutrition in India, and they are topical in the context of current and …

productivity. Overall, the effect of economic liberalization in India seems to have been better than in other countries …

regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman …This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the … subsequent election. This stems mainly from an increased probability that previous women candidates contest again, an important …

We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance rights for women modifies the historic preference for sons in … India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3 …

Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India …

We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender- based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This …. We also find some evidence of an increase in women's labor supply following WPS opening, consistent with women feeling …

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female …

at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births …