political participation of women, using a regression discontinuity design on constituency level data from India. We find that … candidates. This decline is most pronounced in states with entrenched gender bias and in male-headed parties, suggesting an … institutionalized demand-side barriers rather than gender-specific preferences and constraints …

regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman … margin in India where a substantial number of incumbents do not contest re-election. There is no significant entry of new …

This paper uses a field experiment to study the effect of perceived gender norms on the motherhood penalty in the … exogenous variation in gender norms by prominently signaling patrilineal or matrilineal community origins of applicants …

India is the epicenter of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Asia. Previous research indicates that the majority of HIV … for HIV as part of the survey, it provides regional estimates of HIV serostatus for the general population in India …-positive women in India were infected by their husbands, their only sexual partner, which makes them difficult identify as a high …

India is the global epicentre of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Asia. Previous research indicates that the majority of HIV …-positive women in India were infected by their husbands, their only sexual partner, which makes them difficult to identify as a high …-risk population. This paper assesses social factors associated with the transmission of HIV based on demographic determinants, such as …

Gender gaps in leadership roles may be reduced by increasing the number of women in career stages that typically … women to a career pipeline can reduce gender gaps in higher-ranking positions over time. Specifically, we examine the … effects of women's local electoral success on subsequent female candidacy at higher levels of government in India from 1977 to …

In this paper, we first document trends in the gender composition of academic economists over the past 25 years, the … publishing, promotion, and tenure. While underlying gender differences can directly affect the relative productivity of men and … women, due to either differential constraints or preferences, productivity gaps do not fully explain the gender disparity in …

Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences … striving towards gender equality, this opens up new possibilities for institutionalizing competitive pressure. …

In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … returns and focus especially on those incorporating pyschological factors as an explanation of the gender gap. Research areas … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …

This paper considers three aspects in which the issue of gender inequalities arises and is treated within the field of … economics. First, I consider the premises on which gender inequality and discrimination have been conceptualized in traditional … economic frameworks. Second, I consider how contemporary policy discourse—the “business case” for gender equality—might be …