Female education levels are very low in many developing countries.
Does maternal education have a causal impact on children's…
We exploit random assignment of gender quotas for leadership positions on Indian village councils to show that prior exposure to a female…
Evaluations of educational programs commonly assume that what children learn persists over time. The authors compare learning in Pakistani…
India poses a development puzzle on a grand scale. Sixty years of electoral democracy, thirty years of rapid growth, and a number of world…
The lack of "social capital" is frequently given as an explanation for why communities perform poorly. Yet to what extent can project…
In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India,
we ran an exam competition through…
India is an emerging global superpower as its rapid growth has transformed its economy and has maintained itself as the world’s largest…
Indians are used to seeing their filmstars sell products on TV but, probably for the first time, one of them is trying to sell informed…
While women have the legal right to equal participation in politics in almost every country around the world, they remain vastly…