Drawing data from the India Human Development Survey 2011 and the year of the first election with reserved seats for …

This paper investigates the consequences of sex imbalance in India's population for violence against women. We match …

partner selection in India. We find that employed women are 14.5% less likely to receive interest from male suitors relative … patriarchy on marital preferences, especially for men hailing from higher castes and northern India, where communities have more …

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 …

In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible … level data of India for the year 2011–12 is used to examine the relationship between educational attainment and labour …

gender relations emerging within the framework of overlapping social stratification in rural India. Analysis is based on …

India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …