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Does a woman’s take-up of government benefits vary with her perception of how they will be shared within the household? Using randomized assignment to alternative information…
Vol. 135, Pages 103557
How does return migration from the US to Mexico affect local workers? Return migrants increase the local labor supply, potentially hurting local workers. However, having been…
Vol. 131, Pages 782-792
The literature on wage gaps between Chiapas and the rest of Mexico revolves around individual factors, such as education and ethnicity. Yet, twenty years after the Zapatista…
What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions does lynching – lethal, extralegal group violence to punish…
When Performance Trumps Gender Bias. Joint Versus Separate Evaluation. Iris Bohnet, May 2016, Paper, "We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in hiring, promotion…
Corporations, not-for-profit groups and governments spend billions of dollars every year on diversity training—without knowing whether the programs work. A review of almost 1,000…
Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship? Rohini Pande, April 2015, Paper. "Does the lack of peers contribute to the observed gender gap in…
Do the repayment requirements of the classic microfinance contract inhibit investment in high-return but illiquid business opportunities among the poor? Using a field experiment,…
Policy makers, academics, and media reports suggest that women could shrink the gender pay gap by negotiating more effectively for higher compensation. Yet women entering…
Rohini Pande, January 25, 2012, Paper. "Exploiting a randomized natural experiment in India, we show that female leadership influences adolescent girls’ career aspirations and…