Research on South Asia
This page brings together our recommendations for the latest research in South Asia.
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Our Latest Recommendations
This text has been assigned as required reading for the spring CDE elective, Program Evaluation.
This executive summary on JPAL describes an article exploring the effect of a change in gender quotas for village leadership in India.
This executive summary from JPAL provides a synopsis of the microcredit intervention that finds mediocre effects of microcredit, perhaps because loosening credit constraints doesn’t help much if not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur.
In this study, a group of female researchers explores what happens to norms around women when women take on leadership positions in their communities.
In this study, Esther Duflo and Raghabendra Chattopadhyay compare how women spend and how men spend when they’re in positions of leadership in India.