In the Indian family setting, women play a crucial role in the overall development of the households. Hence, development agencies and government programs mainly target women, assuming that empowering women would improve families.

African agriculture is highly sensitive to weather variability and extreme weather shocks. The question of how weather events affect participation in agricultural employment—including from a gender perspective—remains unanswered.

The United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), held in September of 2021, aimed to move food systems transformation to the top of the global policy agenda.

We study the impact of preschool quality on off-farm work participation among women. We first develop a theoretical model that predicts higher qualities of preschools increase the likelihood of women’s off-farm labor force participation.

In many developing countries, agricultural extension services are generally biased towards men, with information targeted mainly to male members of a farming household and in formats that are rarely tailored to women.

We use priming, a concept popular in social psychology, to study the effect of identity salience on aspirations for one’ self and children as part of an impact evaluation in Odisha, India.

Women belonging to the socially disadvantaged caste-groups in India have historically been engaged in labour-intensive, blue-collar work.

In this paper we examine some of the intrahousehold decisionmaking dynamics that shape household’s decision to adopt a mechanical rice transplanting technology that significantly reduces the demand for labor during transplanting.

Many rural development programs aim at improving women’s economic empowerment in agriculture, but as rural income continues to diversify, women may prefer investing in nonfarm activities.

Despite recent evidence that decisions about technology adoption often involve input from both men and women, the literature on technology adoption rarely considers gender and intrahousehold issues.