Background Intersectionality is a concept that originated in Black feminist movements in the
US-American context of the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in the work of feminist scholar and …

Randomised control trials (RCTs) and field studies are two empirical approaches. We
conducted a field study analysing the adoption of Bt eggplant in Bangladesh and compared …

Using the fourth round of the Indian National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), and
subsequently replicating our results using the fifth round (NFHS-5), we document differential …

Throughout the world, women's labour force participation is lower than men's. But the gap
between men's and women's labour force participation varies strikingly across regions …

Economists traditionally distinguish between two forms of labor market discrimination: taste-
based discrimination, a simple preference for hiring one group over the other (Becker …

Traditional practices are one of the factors that cause gender inequality because they
consider women to be inferior to the superiority of men. The purpose of this study is to reveal …

The effect of population or social homogeneity has been documented to have mixed
evidence on public good provisioning and welfare outcomes. In this paper, we examine the …

Gender inequality in India arises from widespread societal attitudes that prioritize the
economic and social status of men and, as a result, favour investment in male children …

This study concentrates on the efforts to develop a discourse of false emancipation that
encourages maintaining long-standing customs rather than rejecting set ideas and traditions …