Using data from the UK Community Life Survey, we present the first study to examine the relationship between heterogeneity in one's friendship network and subjective wellbeing. We measure network heterogeneity by the extent to which one's friends are similar to oneself with regard to ethnicity...

In this chapter, the authors use data from the Financial Inclusion Insights (FII) program to examine the association between mobile money and female decision-making power in India. Drawing on different proxies for female decision-making power, the authors show that awareness of, and the use of,...