Social assistance programs often provide a per-person benefit to targeted beneficiaries.

This paper quantifies the gender gap in the returns to electoral success on the career progression of novice U.S.

Policies that increase women’s representation often intend to provide women with influence over processes and decisions of the organization.

We study two year-long unconditional cash-based assistance programs for Syrian refugees in Lebanon, and show that they improve consumption, child well-being, food security, and reduce livelihood coping.

Does increasing the number of women in career stages that precede high-level positions affect female representation at the top of the career ladder?

More than half of the current members of the U.S.

We develop and assess the performance of an econometric targeting model for a large scale humanitarian aid program providing unconditional cash and food assistance to refugees in Lebanon.

Access to health facilities in many low-income and middle-income countries remains low, with a strong association between individuals’ distance to facilities and health outcomes.

A one-third quota rule for women in local political leadership seats in India increases the number of female candidates who later contest seats in state and national legislatures.

I examine whether the ‘role model effect’ of female politicians on adolescent girls’ school enrollment comes only from female representation in the lowest level of local government.

Randomized experiments provide unbiased estimates of treatment effects, but are costly and time consuming.

We estimate the effects of electricity shortages on Indian manufacturers, instrumenting with supply shifts from hydroelectric power availability.

Little experimental evidence exists on the causal impact of class time on academic performance when students have access to extensive course material online.

This paper studies the recent spatial development of India.

We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India’s manufacturing sector.

We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors.

The spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors are analysed.