Using a field experiment in India where patients are randomly assigned to rank among a set of physicians of the same … that the 'intersectionality' between gender and caste leads to increased gender inequality among professionals in India …

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … shrinking of the gap between actual and desired fertility. Heterogeneity in fertility responses suggests a shift in the …