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,