Climate change is increasing rainfall uncertainty, which has gendered impacts on rural labour markets. After droughts, women are less likely to access non-farm employment through migration than men, exacerbating existing occupational gender gaps
A programme constructing new rural roads in India increased bank lending, particularly to previously excluded communities, with new financing put towards productive uses
Local social structures, such as the jati-caste system in India, can play an important role in the extent of diffusion of new and beneficial agricultural technologies
Improving the payment infrastructure for India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme raised incomes — mostly through increases in non-programme earnings
Female legislators decrease crop fire incidence and lower particulate emissions relative to male leaders - a survey suggests that female leaders are more likely to consider crop fires a serious issue, weigh their impacts on child health, and implemen...
Increasing judicial staffing in frontline courts lowers the pending backlog of legal cases and enables capital stuck in litigation to be put to more productive uses, which increases access to working capital for local firms and improves firm producti...
