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 …

Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings … larger share of family resources. Policies empowering women can yield additional positive externalities for children's human …Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial …

-making, the experiment markets stoves to husbands or wives in turn at randomly varying prices. We find that women - who bear … suggest that if women cannot make independent choices about household resource use, public policy may not be able to exploit … gender differences in preferences to promote technology adoption absent broader social change …