We study the educational choices of children of immigrants in a tracked school system. We first show that immigrants in Italy enroll…
We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law firms in the world.…
Today in India, 67% percent of men own mobile phones, but only 33% percent of women do. South Asian countries in general are clear outliers…
Female labor force participation varies significantly even among countries with similar levels of economic development. Recent studies have…
We use literacy data available in the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for 129 survey rounds, across 54 countries, to estimate the…
Sustained high economic growth since the early 1990s has brought significant change to the lives of Indian women, and yet female labor…
Child stunting in India exceeds that in poorer regions like sub-Saharan Africa. Data on over 168,000 children show that, relative to Africa…
We use a unique set of nationally representative data of adults from ten developing countries and a unique measure of literacy - a direct…
While microfinance institutions (MFIs) are increasingly important as employers in the developing world, there is little micro-level…
Several field experiments find positive returns to grants for male and not female microentrepreneurs. But, these analyses largely overlook…