India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to isolate causal effects. We find significantly higher growth in …

This study examines the barriers to female entrepreneurship in India's microenterprise sector through society and … presence of a discriminating inefficient business ecosystem, women entrepreneurs use non-market strategies such as corruption … to alter decisions in their favour. Thus, an effort to reduce corruption at an immature stage, when these societal …

The paper studies how well-being of women is impacted by the interaction of prevalent corruption levels with the forces … of globalisation. Given that corruption disproportionately affect women and girls as they generally start from low level … flows and political globalisation gets nullified by public sector corruption thereby actually reducing women's well …

competitive elections to India's state legislative assemblies, exploiting close elections between men and women to isolate the …