In much of the developing world, cooking accounts for the largest share of women's time in home production. Does relying on solid fuels drive this time burden This study revisits a clean energy information experiment in rural India to assess the time savings' potential of cleaner cooking...

Many developing countries use employment guarantee programs to combat poverty. This paper examines the consequences of such employment guarantee programs for the human capital accumulation of children. It exploits the phased roll-out of India's flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment...

This paper estimates a synthetic difference-in-differences specification on the roll-out of a program providing free bus transit for women in several Indian states, to examine the impact on women's time allocation and labor supply. Household expenditures on buses fall and women save time on...