The central idea of this paper is to explore link between socio-economic positions of women working in unorganized … sector with special reference to beedi rolling. In India Beedi making is an age old industry and one of the largest job … providers for women in the unorganized sector. Women are having inherent advantage in this job in this job of beedi rolling due …

How is prenatal sex selective behaviour influenced by the presence of cheap fetal gender identification technology and … financial incentives? We analyze a conditional cash transfer program in India called Janani Suraksha Yojna. By providing access …

India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3 …We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance rights for women modifies the historic preference for sons in …

This paper empirically tests for two competing explanations of the increasing sex ratio at birth (SRB) in India … Family Health Survey in India (1992, 1998 and 2005), I find that the probability of a male birth varies significantly across … birth parities. Using a novel proxy for hepatitis B in India - tribal status - I also find that hepatitis B has no impact on …