This paper studies gender heterogeneity in preferences. We used experimental methods to elicit the subjective discount … discount rate is related to number of children. No gender difference is found for individuals without children. Women …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects …. In addition personal attitudes such as willingness to take risks and relative self-assessment as well as gender affect …

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 …

poor youths in India, focusing on two dimensions of individuals' identity: caste and gender. Our empirical findings suggest … skills. Individual-level and household-level factors mediate some of the aspiration gaps based on caste and gender. We find … evidence that for SC/ST female participants, the disadvantages on both caste and gender dimensions add up; this is reflected in …

intersectionality of caste, religion, and gender identities. Using data from the India Human Development Survey 2011-12, the study finds …This study is positioned in two strands of literature-intersectionality and social mobility. It is the first to measure … (dis)advantage at the individual level as an outcome of the intersectionality of identities and parental circumstances. By …

in an intra-household comparison. We also test for the intersectionality of the overlapping identities of gender and …This paper investigates the role of social identity, namely gender and caste of individuals, in stream choice at the … higher secondary level of schooling in India. We analyze the choice of science stream that is a crucial determinant of …

random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed … three children. We do not observe this link among men. Taken together, we find significant gender differences in patience …

For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs …

For our experiment on corruption we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs, and …