Economic Opportunities and Gender Differences in Human Capital: Experimental Evidence for India

Robert T. Jensen

NBER Working Paper No. 16021
Issued in May 2010

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I would like to thank Dora Costa, Pascaline Dupas, Nolan Miller, Adriana Lleras-Muney, Mai Nguyen, Jeff Nugent, Emily Oster, John Strauss and seminar participants at Berkeley, Columbia, the University of Chicago and Yale for valuable comments and discussions. Financial support from the Center for Aging and Health Research at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Women and Public Policy Program, the Dean's Research Fund at and the William F. Milton Fund at Harvard University is gratefully acknowledged. I would also like to thank Shubhashis Gangopadhyay and the India Development Foundation for hosting me during the initial stages of this project. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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