The paper examines the impact of a rural roads construction program in India on women's outcomes. While spatial … integration can provide women with increased education and employment opportunities, the extent of benefits might be limited by … underlying gender norms. We identify the impact of the policy by exploiting the program rule that assigned roads based on the …

, and the women worked closer to home. Next, due to the common pool nature of irrigation water, historically irrigation has … involved more frequent warfare. This raised the social status of men and restricted women's movement. These two mechanisms have …

election candidates in India. In patriarchal societies like India, conservative gender norms often discourage women from active …This paper examines whether granting property inheritance rights to women improves their participation in politics as … time and financial resources, making it particularly challenging for women. Enhancing property rights has the potential to …

women pradhans, I estimate the effect of the Panchayati Raj institutions on age and autonomy over marriage. Results indicate … that women in local government decrease the likelihood of child marriage, and increase the age at first marriage and gauna …. The effects seem to be driven by changes in gender and cultural norms, because there is a reduction in the prevalence of …

helplessness. Women are one side of a coin, half in every respect, then why not in power? The paper discuss, the effect after … Indian constitution provided women resevation for women in local government elections in mid 90s. In first one decade more … than one million women took active part in Indian local politics and have shown their ability in political management …

Economic theory suggests that growth may improve gender equality directly by raising women's employment and indirectly …. This paper argues that growth in India has not substantially improved gender equality because it has not sufficiently … poverty-might actually have led to greater gender equality in India-by reducing poverty-linked gender discrimination. The …

This paper examines how women's participation in family decision-making is affected by land rights in rural areas in … India. The 2005 Hindu Succession Act was legislated to protect women's rights to an equal share in ancestral property … in those four states have their land registered under women's names. Controlling for the potential endogeneity of land …