We exploit the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to identify exogenous shifts in …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes … via women's labour force participation. Using data from the Young Lives Study and taking advantage of the spatial and …

agricultural sovereignty in a manner that ensures greater financial and social security for rural women not only in India, but …This paper explores the gendered causes and impacts of India's farmer suicide crisis. It begins with a discussion of … property regime intersects with India's trade liberalization efforts to create negative impacts on the country's agricultural …

We examine the causal effect of women's age at marriage on prevalence of domestic violence using newly available … household data from India. We employ an empirical strategy that utilizes variation in age at menarche to obtain exogenous … variation in women's age at marriage. We find robust evidence that a one-year delay in women's marriage causes a significant …

from India, we find evidence of positive effects of women’s age at marriage on their own and their spouses’ labor market …The labor market impacts of women’s age at marriage have recently received significant attention from social scientists … marriage affects labor market prospects of women in developing countries. This paper addresses this gap in the existing …