India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …

This chapter provides a bird's eye view of the literature on gender discrimination. The presentation of studies is … grouped into five parts. Part 1 presents evidence of gender discrimination measured via various dimensions in various … countries and contexts. Part 2 discusses in detail the gender wage gapâ one of the most important measures of gender …

longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there is substantial intra-household gender disparity in the choice of …This paper investigates gender-based segregation across different fields of study at the post-secondary level of … humanities.This gender disparity is not driven by gender specific differences in mathematical ability, as the gap remains large …

at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births …

Detecting gender discrimination among children in the intra-household allocation of goods from household surveys has … expenditures in India. Contrary to most previous research, I find evidence of discrimination against girls. Results at the all-India … in the analysis at the state level. In general, girls experience gender discrimination especially from age 10 onwards …

This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …

India. Using primary survey data, we find more program inefficiencies and leakages in village councils reserved for women …

increasing preference for son and neglect for daughters. Multiple reports point to India as country confronted with both higher … sex ratio and shortage of girls is associated with their illegal trafficking in India. Using panel data of 29 Indian …