other traits, such as gender? We answer this question by examining the impact of a successful school-expansion program on … the likelihood of women being elected to state legislatures in India. We show that the program increased voter … prioritization of leader competence over gender, boosting the share of women among candidates and state parliamentarians and the …

the first nationally representative Time Use Survey of India, 2019, the paper answers two questions. First, how does the … state of residence. Overall, the results suggest that policies that aim to increase women's education and promote gender …

Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey … instrumental variables (IV) strategy. The IV approach exploits the dramatic expansion of cell towers in India as a source of supply … effects vary substantially across gender: women face a penalty in the form of a lower impact on salaried employment, but the …

advances in gender equality. Several studies have examined how competitive FDI pressures might lower gender inequality by … transfer reduces gender employment and gender wage gaps in developing countries. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first … with foreign investment to reduce gender inequality in occupations that suffer most from discrimination, while technology …