Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries—in education, personal
autonomy, and more—explained by underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies that are …

This paper reviews the literature on women's land rights (WLR) and poverty reduction. It
uses the Gender, Agriculture and Assets Project (GAAP) conceptual framework to identify …

This paper evaluates an intervention in India that engaged adolescent girls and boys in
classroom discussions about gender equality for two years, aiming to reduce their support …

Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations around the World focuses on an issue
that has gotten much attention in the developed world, but will present new data and …

We evaluate the short-term impact of a pilot land regularization program in Rwanda using a
geographic discontinuity design with spatial fixed effects. Three key findings emerge from …

Almost half of missing women in India are of postreproductive ages. Can intrahousehold
gender inequality and asymmetry in poverty explain a portion of these missing women …

Measuring gender inequality in land ownership is essential for assessing progress in
women's economic empowerment, tracing the impact of progressive laws on actual practice …

This paper examines the intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes in India, a
setting with severe discrimination against women and girls. We use survey data on gender …

This paper examines the impact of gender-progressive reforms to the inheritance law in
India on women's outcomes. Despite stipulating that daughters would have equal shares as …

We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance rights for women modifies the
historic preference for sons in India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the …