Gender and social norms
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Resources
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Research
Path-finding papers:
- Formal and Informal Market Institutions: Embeddedness.
- Culture, Institutions, and Development.
- The Dynamics of Family Systems: Lessons from Past and Present Times.
- Conflict and Development.
- Gender Institutions, and Economic Development.
- Group inequality in democracies: lessons from cross-national experiences.
- Media as a Tool for Institutional Change in Development.
Randomised control trials (RCTs):
- Is Knowledge Power? Civics Training, Women’s Political Representation, and Local Governance in India.
- Institutional Reform and de facto Women’s Rights.
- Community Policing and Public Trust: A Field Experiment in Uganda.
- Reforming Police Practices in India.
Case studies:
- Media Diversity, Religion and Economic Behaviour: An Analysis of Pakistan.
- Discretion versus rule-based budgeting and assignment in Indian governments.
- A woman’s place is in the production management?
- The historical roots of Female Genital Cutting (FGC).
- Economic role of clans: Linking past and present.
- Land rights and village councils in Tanzania.
- Social structures, political accountability, and effective public goods provision.
- Women’s inheritance and female empowerment.
- Aspirations in Economics: A Review.
- Female political representation and its impact in Uganda.
- Combatting caste- and gender-based discrimination in the healthcare and education sector.
- Child marriage law, gender norms and marriage customs (Bangladesh).
