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Welfare implications of fiscal reform: The case of food subsidies in India

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2002

. First, does the food subsidy induce higher expenditures on food? Second, are there gender inequalities in the distribution …

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The Right Tail and the Right Tale: The Gender Wage Gap in Mexico

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel; Venkataramani, … - In: Gender convergence in the labor market, (pp. 299-341). 2015

We analyze the evolution of the gender wage gap in Mexico between 1989 and 2012, a period in which skill … substantial gender wage convergence in the decade of the 2000s at the mean and, more markedly, at the upper and lower ends of the … wage distribution, alongside little change in the median wage gap. The gender wage gap at the 90th percentile was largely …

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Intergenerational persistence in health in developing countries: The penalty of gender inequality?

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2010

This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and region as well as across the distribution of maternal...

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Socioemotional Skills in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Maternal Psychosocial Intervention

Sevim, Dilek; Baranov, Victoria; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; … - 2023

We study the formation of social and emotional skills in the first three years of life, and investigate the impact of a cluster-randomized peer-led psychosocial intervention targeting perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. The intervention significantly improved maternal mental health,...

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Path-Breakers: How Does Women's Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Iyer, Lakshmi - 2013

This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman winning office leads to a large and significant...

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Cognitive Development and Infectious Disease: Gender Differences in Investments and Outcomes

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar - 2013

a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …

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Maternal mortality and women's political participation

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Gomes, Joseph Flavian; … - 2018

Raising women's political participation leads to faster maternal mortality decline. We estimate that the introduction of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9-12 per cent decline in maternal mortality. In terms of mechanisms, it also leads to an 8-11 per cent increase in skilled birth...

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Women's Inheritance Rights Reform and the Preference for Sons in India

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Brulé, Rachel; Roy, Sanchari - 2017

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 3.8–4.3 percentage points less likely to be girls, indicating...

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Health and Labor Market Impacts of Twin Birth: Evidence from a Swedish IVF Policy Mandate

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2022

IVF allows women to delay birth and pursue careers, but IVF massively increases the risk of twin birth. There is limited evidence of how having twins influences women's post-birth careers. We investigate this, leveraging a single embryo transfer (SET) mandate implemented in Sweden in 2003,...

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Property Rights and Gender Bias: Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Chakravarty, Abhishek; Mookherjee, Dilip - 2016

unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West …

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