Important decisions in life, such as those regarding education, employment and family
planning, are determined by expected costs and benefits, available resources, and …

Gender gaps in labor market outcomes persist in South Asia. An open question is whether
supply or demand side constraints play a larger role. We investigate this using matched data …

Purpose Adopting an institutional view of entrepreneurship, this study aims to explore the
potential mediating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) in the relationship between …

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 …

This study's main goal was to investigate how financial literacy affects consumer behavior
and financial decisions. An online questionnaire was used to gather the data for this …

Policy interventions to bolster the aspirations of children and adults have gained increasing
attention and are being employed to achieve better educational, labor market, and business …

Students in low-income contexts often lack guidance in their career decisions which can
lead to a misallocation of educational investments. We report on a randomized field …

In this paper we randomly assigned upper secondary school students to watch a role model
or a placebo video. After video exposure, we gave female and male students the opportunity …

We investigate the presence of gender bias in student evaluation of teaching (SET) scores
with a natural field experiment in India. We employ a novel experimental design, randomly …

This thesis consists of five chapters relating to gender justice, education, sanction law, and
public policy. In the first chapter, I examine the effect of female leadership in local …