development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries--Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil … --all of which experienced rapid growth in recent years, but for different reasons. The patterns of growth are analyzed in … "fundamentals" challenge in growth. Out of these seven countries, the traditional path to rapid growth of export oriented …

growth in 18,961 regions in eight of the world's main economies. Overall, market potential is losing importance, and local … density is gaining importance, as correlates of local growth. In mature economies, growth is strongest in low … costs and the growth of centrally located regions …

Where social norms favor gender segregation, firms may find it costly to employ both men and women. If the costs of …

Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and influence gender norms? In collaboration with … Indian government partners, we provided rural women with individual bank accounts and randomly varied whether their wages … status quo). Women in a random subset of villages were also trained on account use. In the short run, relative to women just …

expanding a business, conditional on entry, are also substantially higher for women. However, there is one area in which female … composition of female employment. Counterfactual simulations indicate that removing all excess barriers faced by women …

predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may … weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though many studies have examined the link between women's wages or labor force … overcome these problems, we provided three years of recruiting services to help young women in randomly selected Indian …

in women's status. We find significant increases in reported autonomy, decreases in the reported acceptability of beating … and other countries attempt to decrease bias against women …

This paper uses political reservations for women in India to study the impact of women's leadership on policy decisions … for a woman: in these councils only women could be elected to the position of head. Village Councils are responsible for … the type of public goods provided in reserved and unreserved Villages Councils. We show that women invest more in …