Striking gender gaps persist in fundamental aspects of human welfare. In India, the setting of this paper, these gaps …

has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multi-religious societies like the one in India. We address this … lacuna in the literature by examining the differences in the average (log) earnings of Hindu and Muslim wage earners in India …, during the 1987-2005 period. Our results indicate that education differences between Hindu and Muslim wage earners …

states and for urban and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998/9), we select our sample drawing information from the household data set …

a women’s empowerment programme in rural India on child immunization and school enrolment. The survey covers both …

In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … earnings suggest that at lower levels of education, female labor force participation is driven by necessity rather than …

This paper assesses the status of education, both quantity and quality, in Bihar in both absolute terms and relative to … other states in India. It then performs a regression exercise using a panel data of Indian states to identify the correlates … of educational outcomes. It also surveys the broader literature on education policies which provides a perspective on the …