attainment levels between male and female in India is staggering. Reduction in such gap is essential for more than one reason …. Latest population census 2001 indicates considerable difference in literacy rate at all India as well as state level between …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …

We exploit the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to identify exogenous shifts in …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …

. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents in rural India to examine whether socioeconomic status …

complementarity of all-weather roads and a bicycle program in Bihar, India, which aimed to increase girls' secondary school enrollment … importance of well-functioning infrastructure for the accessibility of secondary schools and the empowering of girls in India. …

, school, and labor market. Mobility and investment equations from the model are estimated for India using data not truncated …

concave or convex, and gender biasaffects both relative and absolute mobility. We test these predictions in India and China … rural India, the mechanisms are underestimation of ability of girlsand unfavorable school environment. There is some … evidence of pure son preference in rural India.The girls in rural China do not face bias in financial investment by parents …