In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India, we ran an exam … assigned child "characteristics" (age, gender, and caste) to the cover sheets of the exams to ensure that there is no …

India's male-biased sex ratio has worsened over the past several decades. In combination with the increased … roughly half of the increase in the sex ratio that has occurred in India over the past thirty years. In addition, factors such …

This paper explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth … the district-level using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East) and Madras (South). We find …

This paper examines the intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes in India, a setting where discrimination … against women and girls is severe. We use survey data on gender attitudes (specifically, views about the appropriate roles and … likely to hold the view. As a benchmark, classmates' average gender attitudes have a similar effect size. We find that …

Although previous research has not always found that boys and girls are treated differently in rural India, son …-biased stopping rules imply that estimates of the effect of gender on parental investments are likely to be biased because girls …

Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and influence gender norms? In collaboration with … private sectors. In the long run, gender norms liberalized: women who received direct deposit and training became more …-making in which increases in bargaining power from greater control over income interact with, and influence, gender norms …