rate and attitude toward risk in Indian villages. Results show that women made more patient choices than men and that their … discount rate is related to number of children. No gender difference is found for individuals without children. Women …

reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality around the world. The growth rate of development assistance targeted towards …

Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why … did this occur? We look at the four standard explanations: that more women in rural areas are now pursuing higher … there is a tendency for women to withdraw from the labor force to attend to domestic duties (income effect), that employment …

We examine educational transmission between fathers (mothers) and daughters in India for daughters born during 1962 …') educational distribution. We also find that "Equality of Opportunity" remains an elusive goal for India. Not only the probability …

This is a brief sketch of the Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) threedecade- long journey from the local to … global and informal to formal sector in search of finding work and income for now 720,000 women workers. Though SEWA remains …

pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic status of children and women in India. We show that among very … among adult women. Impacts on anemic status are driven by the growth of PM2.5 pollution attributable to emissions from coal … increasing demand for energy that emerging market economies like India face. …

stakeholders. Based on the demand from the targeted learners, a competency-based vocational training course especially for women …

that of her husband's - causally affects domestic violence using microdata from India. Identifying the causal effect of … findings suggest that policies that seek to empower women and promote gender equality might paradoxically increase women …

This paper examines the impact of the Hindu Succession Act on married women's time use in India. The Hindu Succession … Act was amended between 1976 and 2005 by giving equal inheritance rights to women for inheriting property. To estimate the …. Using the nationally representative Time Use Survey 2019, I find that women exposed to the reform are investing 46 minutes …