Jayachandran, Seema; Biradavolu, Monica R.; Cooper, Jan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
measure agency for 209 women in Haryana, India, first, through a semi-structured interview and, second, through a large set of …We propose a new method to design a short survey measure of a complex concept such as women's agency. The approach … close-ended questions. We use qualitative coding methods to score each woman's agency based on the interview, which we treat …