discount rate is related to number of children. No gender difference is found for individuals without children. Women …This paper studies gender heterogeneity in preferences. We used experimental methods to elicit the subjective discount … rate and attitude toward risk in Indian villages. Results show that women made more patient choices than men and that their …

In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large … random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed … survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of children. The age of children matters: The …

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 … potential endogeneity of politician gender and the sample composition of births, we find that a one standard deviation increase …

This paper investigates the effect of a food subsidy programme in India on child malnutrition by addressing the …. First, does the food subsidy induce higher expenditures on food? Second, are there gender inequalities in the distribution … respect to the unusually high incidence of malnutrition in India, and they are topical in the context of current and …

economic justification of biofuel promotion instruments and investigates their implications. Based on data from India and …

In this paper we investigate the relationship between inequality and the environment in a growing economy from a … the environment. Public expenditures may either be devoted to supporting growth or abating pollution. The decision over … and show that inequality is harmful for the environment: the poorer the median voter relative to the average individual …

This paper critically assesses the literature on the relationship between economic integration and the environment. In …

Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates … virginity, across societies and over time, can be influenced by socio-economic factors such as male income inequality, gender …

gender. Women are also found to be less directly dependent on migration costs unrelated to networks such as distance. … at whether diaspora effects are different across education levels and gender. Using new data allowing to include both … influencing the selection in terms skills and in term of gender. We found that network effects vary by education level but not by …