Gender
Papers:
Radu Ban and
Vijayendra Rao, Tokenism
Versus Agency: The Impact of Women's Reservations on Panchayats
in South India, Economic Development and Cultural Change,
April 2008
Vijayendra
Rao, "On
'Inequality Traps' and Development Policy," Development
Outreach, Vol. 8, No. 1, February 2006
Francis
Bloch, Vijayendra Rao and Sonal Desai, "Wedding Celebrations as Conspicuous
Consumption: Signaling Social Status in Rural India," Journal
of Human Resources Volume XXXIX, Number 3, Summer 2004
Vijayendra
Rao, "The Economics of Dowries in India,"
in Kaushik Basu (editor), Oxford Companion to Economics,
Oxford University Press, Delhi (forthcoming) 2006 (See Sudhir Dhar's
cartoon on dowries)
Lupin
Rahman and Vijayendra Rao, "The
Determinants of Gender Equity in India: Examining Dyson and Moore's
Thesis with New Data", Population and Development Review,
30(2), Pp: 239-268, June 2004(This is an electronic
version of an article published in Population and Development
Review. Complete
citation information for the final version of the paper, as published
in the print edition of Population and Development Review, is available
on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via
the journal’s website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdr
or http://www.blackwell-synergy.com)
Vijayendra
Rao, Indrani Gupta, Michael Lokshin and Smarajit Jana, “Sex
Workers and The Cost of Safe Sex: The Compensating Differential
for Condom Use in Calcutta," Journal of Development Economics,
Volume
71, Issue 2 , August 2003, Pages 585-603
Francis
Bloch and Vijayendra Rao, "Terror
as Bargaining Instrument: A Case-Study of Dowry Violence in Rural
India," American Economic Review,
September 2002
Vijayendra
Rao, "The Marriage Squeeze Interpretation of
Dowry Inflation: Response." (long version) Journal
of Political Economy, Vol. 108, #6, December 2000.
Vijayendra
Rao, "Domestic
Violence and Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Rural Karnataka:
An Exercise in 'Participatory Econometrics'," in
Gender, Population, and Development, M.Krishnaraj,R.Sudarshan,
A.Sharif (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1998
Anil
Deolalikar and Vijayendra Rao, "The Demand
for Dowries and Bride Characteristics in Marriage: Empirical Estimates
for Rural
South-Central India,"
in
Gender, Population, and Development, M.Krishnaraj,R.Sudarshan,
A.Sharif (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1998.
Vijayendra
Rao, "Wife
Beating in Rural South India: A Qualitative and Econometric Analysis,"
Social Science and Medicine , Vol. 44, # 8, Pp. 1169-1180,
April 1997. (See "Domestic Violence
and Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Rural Karnataka: An Exercise
in 'Participatory Econometrics' for an expanded and more comprehensive
version of this paper).
Margaret E. Greene and Vijayendra
Rao, "The Marriage Squeeze and the Rise in Informal Marriage
in Brazil," Social Biology, Vol. 42 #1/2, Spring 1995
(Also published in Portugese as "A Compressao
do Mercado Matrimonial e o Aumento das Unioes Consensuais no Brasil,"
Revista Brasileira De Estudos De Populâço , V.9 N.2,
Jul/Dec. 1992
Vijayendra Rao, "The
Rising Price of Husbands: A Hedonic Analysis of Dowry Increases
in Rural India", Journal of Political Economy,
Vol. 101, #4, August 1993.
Vijayendra Rao, "Dowry Inflation
in Rural India: A Statistical Investigation," Population
Studies, Vol. 47, July 1993,
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