Research

Publications

1. Bose, N., &  Das, S. 2024.  Reassessing the relationship between women's empowerment and fertility: Evidence from India. Review of Development Economics,  28(2): 544–573. https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.13066

   • • Working Paper Version

     • (Previously titled Women's Inheritance Rights and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from India)

2. Shreyasee Das and Shatanjaya Dasgupta. 2023. Hidden costs of industrial disasters: Marriage market consequences of the Bhopal Gas Disaster, Economics Bulletin, 43 (2): 813-829

• Published Version Working Paper Version

3. Bose, Nayana & Shreyasee Das. 2021. "Intergenerational effects of improving women’s property rights: evidence from India", Oxford Development Studies, 49(3): 277-290, DOI: 10.1080/13600818.2021.1899154

4. Bose, Nayana, and Shreyasee Das. 2017. "Women's Inheritance Rights, Household Allocation and Gender Bias." American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 107(5): 150-153. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.p20171128

5. Bose, N. and S. Das. 2017. "Political Reservation for Women and Delivery of Public Works Program." Review of Development Economics. https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.12336 

Working Papers

• Marriage Market Responses in the event of a Natural Disaster (with Shatanjaya Dasgupta) (Second Round Revision Submitted)

  • WIDER Working Paper

• State Rights over Water and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from the Krishna Basin (new draft coming soon)

• The Impact of Temporary Work Guarantee Programs on Children's Education: Evidence from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act from India (with Abhilasha Singh)

Works in Progress

• Lights On for Safety: Evaluating the Linkages Between Electrification and Violence Against Women (with Narbadeshwar Mishra & Sayli Javadekar) [Working Title] 

• Unintended health consequences of mandatory retirement age in India (with Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel and Shreya Bhattacharya) [Working Title]

• Water Allocation Rules and Health Outcomes: Evidence from India (with Shreya Bhattacharya and Nayana Bose)

• The Role of Polygamy in Family Size and Fertility Decisions (with Nayana Bose)

Media and Other Writings 

• Media Coverage on Marriage Markets and Disasters (Podcast for the Bangalore International Centre), 2022

• Women deserve pay transparency in the workplace: Interview with The Temple News on the implications of pay transparency in the workplace, 29th March, 2022

• A Guide for Non-Tenure Track Faculty: Co-edited FOCUS Newsletter for the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession with Seth Gitter (Towson University), 2021

• Women grow as much as 80% of India’s food – but its new farm laws overlook their struggles, with Bansari Kamdar, The Conversation, March 11, 2021

Permanent Working Paper

•  What is the Return to Attending a Non-Elite Private College? (with Scott Imberman)