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 …

There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there … India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to isolate causal effects. We find significantly higher growth in … economic activity in constituencies that elect women and no evidence of negative spillovers to neighbouring male …

urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points post …-pandemic relative to pre-pandemic, while their monthly earnings fell by 89 per cent relative to the baseline mean. In contrast, women … husbands. In contrast, staying employed during the pandemic is associated with worse mental health for women and their …