gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the mean, as well as along the entire wage … distribution to see "what happens where". The gender log wage gap at the mean is 55 percent in 1999-2000 and 49 percent in 2009 … that, in both years, the bulk of the gender wage gap is unexplained, i.e. possibly discriminatory. They also reveal that …

India. We measure teacher’s bias through an index capturing teacher’s subjective beliefs about the role of gender and other … gender gap among medium-performing students. Mediation analysis shows that biased teachers negatively affect girls’ attitude …

Using detailed monthly panel data from rural India, this paper analyzes sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I …

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 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 …

This paper studies the impact of services liberalization on education and the gender education gap at the district … level in India. We focus on the time period 1987 to 1999 and three services sectors - banking, insurance and … number of years of schooling (positively) and the gender education gap (negatively). These effects are at least as relevant …