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This written statement addresses several of the questions raised regarding the potential legalization of betting and gambling in India. Of the five questions posed in the Appeal, dated May 30, 2017, I address only the first two: 1) “Will legalizing betting and gambling help in curbing the...
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This research paper examined gendered perspective of informal economy of Pakistan and has tried to highlight the gender … condition of gender discriminatory practices, such as, exploitation (93.3%), behavioral problems (67%) and restricted mobility …, gender dimensions and gender norms must not be ignored, in order to attain fruitful results and material and social welfare …
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Using detailed monthly panel data from rural India, this paper analyzes sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I document three important findings. First, there is clear evidence of sorting into sectors, with very large differences in worker human capital across the farm and non-farm sectors and...
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gender and needs commensurate interventions. …
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We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance rights for women modifies the historic preference for sons in India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3.8-4.3 percentage points less likely to be girls, indicating...
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