Seema Jayachandran

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Seema Jayachandran

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According to Wikipedia, Seema Jayachandran is an economist who currently works as Professor of Economics at Princeton University. Her research interests include development economics, health economics, and labor economics. Biography Seema Jayachandran earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. As a Marshall Scholar, she studied Physics and Philosophy at the University of Oxford. In 1997, she began graduate studies in Physics at Harvard University, but completed a PhD in Economics in 2004.

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Seema Jayachandran's Published Works

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Published Works

The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries (2014) (606)
Selling Labor Low: Wage Responses to Productivity Shocks in Developing Countries (2006) (480)
Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India (2009) (430)
Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Maternal Mortality Declines (2008) (380)
Do Traditional Institutions Constrain Female Entrepreneurship? A Field Experiment on Business Training in India (2010) (365)
The Jeffords Effect* (2004) (332)
Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia's Wildfires (2008) (332)
Cash for carbon: A randomized trial of payments for ecosystem services to reduce deforestation (2017) (300)
Why Are Indian Children So Short? The Role of Birth Order and Son Preference. (2017) (255)
The Price Effects of Cash versus In-Kind Transfers (2011) (199)
Modern Medicine and the Twentieth Century Decline in Mortality: Evidence on the Impact of Sulfa Drugs (2010) (163)
Social Norms as a Barrier to Women’s Employment in Developing Countries (2020) (136)
Fertility Decline and Missing Women (2014) (132)
Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India (2018) (130)
Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship? (2015) (115)
Incentives to teach badly: After-school tutoring in developing countries (2014) (115)
Does Economic Growth Reduce Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam (2013) (102)
Firm Growth and Corruption: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam (2017) (100)
The Causes and Consequences of Increased Female Education and Labor Force Participation in Developing Countries (2016) (98)
Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Attitudes: Evidence from India (2015) (97)
Odious Debt (2002) (79)
Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality (2009) (70)
Liquidity Constraints and Deforestation: The Limitations of Payments for Ecosystem Services (2013) (62)
Why are Indian Children so Short? (2015) (62)
Why Are Indian Children Shorter Than African Children ? ∗ (2013) (43)
Cash for Carbon: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Deforestation (2016) (38)
Modern Medicine and the 20th Century Decline in Mortality: Evidence on the Impact of Sulfa Drugs (2008) (37)
Self-selection into payments for ecosystem services programs (2018) (34)
Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries (2020) (32)
Changing Family Attitudes to Promote Female Employment (2019) (29)
Social Norms as a Barrier to Women&Apos;S Employment in Developing Countries (2020) (27)
Air Quality and Infant Mortality During Indonesia's Massive Wildfires in 1997 (2005) (24)
Choice not genes: Probable cause for the India-Africa child height gap (2013) (24)
Do Teenagers Respond to HIV Risk Information? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya (2011) (21)
Mothers Care More, But Fathers Decide: Educating Parents about Child Health in Uganda. (2017) (21)
Evidence on Mechanisms Operating in Women’s Groups (2020) (16)
Friends at Work : Can Peer Support Stimulate Female Entrepreneurship ? ∗ (2014) (15)
Inexpensive Heating Reduces Winter Mortality (2019) (12)
SOCIAL DIVISIONS AND PUBLIC GOODS PROVISION: EVIDENCE FROM COLONIAL INDIA (2006) (12)
Grandmothers and the gender gap in the Mexican labor market (2022) (11)
Applying the Odious Debts Doctrine while Preserving Legitimate Lending (2006) (11)
Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Maternal Mortality Declines. NBER Working Paper No. 13947. (2008) (11)
Does Contraceptive Use Always Reduce Breast-feeding? (2014) (10)
Odious Debt: When Dictators Borrow, Who Repays the Loan? (2003) (10)
Life expectancy and human capital investments: Evidence from maternal mortality declines in Sri Lanka (2007) (9)
How Economic Development Influences the Environment (2021) (9)
Does Sample-Selection Bias Explain the Antebellum Puzzle? Evidence from Military Enlistment in the Nineteenth-Century United States (2015) (9)
Dads and Daughters: Disentangling Altruism and Investment Motives for Spending on Children (2022) (7)
Words Matter: Gender, Jobs and Applicant Behavior (2021) (7)
Using Machine Learning and Qualitative Interviews to Design a Five-Question Women's Agency Index (2021) (7)
Environmental Externalities and Free-Riding in the Household (2017) (6)
Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality During Indonesia's Massive Wildfires in 1997 (2005) (6)
Attending kindergarten improves cognitive but not socioemotional development in India (2019) (6)
Selling Labor Low: Equilibrium Wage Volatility in Developing Countries (2004) (5)
Improving Willingness-to-Pay Elicitation by Including a Benchmark Good (2022) (4)
Gender Peer Effects: Evidence from a Quasi-Random Classroom Assignment Policy∗ (2015) (3)
Replication data for: Why Are Indian Children So Short? The Role of Birth Order and Son Preference (2019) (3)
Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning (2022) (2)
Make Odious Debt Too Risky to Issue (2003) (2)
Governance Challenges in Education and Health Care in Developing Countries (2015) (2)
Why Aren’t We Achieving the Millenium Development Goals? Book Review for the Proceedings of Annual World Bank Conference in Development Economics, `Lessons of Experience’ and `Are we on Track to Achieve the Millenium Development Goals’ (2006) (2)
When Peers Count : Evidence from Randomized Peer Assignments in the Workplace (2017) (2)
Social Incentives : The Causes and Consequences of Social Networks in the Workplace ∗ (2007) (2)
Son Preference Drives India’s High Child Malnutrition Rates (2015) (2)
A World of Junk-Status States (2002) (2)
Environmental externalities and intrahousehold ine ffi ciencies ⇤ (2017) (1)
The inherent trade-off between the environmental and anti-poverty goals of payments for ecosystem services (2022) (1)
Forest Conservation in Uganda: Using Financial Incentives to Avert Climate Change (2017) (1)
Impacts of Breakthrough’s school-based gender attitude change programme in Haryana, India (2018) (1)
Odds are you’re measuring son preference incorrectly (2017) (1)
Using machine learning and qualitative interviews to design a five-question survey module for women’s agency (2023) (1)
Introduction to Issue on Malnutrition (2012) (1)
Century Decline in Mortality: New Evidence on the Impact of Sulfa Drugs (2008) (1)
Sovereign Debt At The Crossroads Challenges And Proposals For Resolving The Third World Debt Crisis (2020) (1)
Detecting Crop Burning in India using Satellite Data (2022) (1)
Loan Sanctions: A New Tool for Diplomacy? (2007) (1)
A Friend’s Support Can Make Women Better Entrepreneurs (2015) (1)
Why Are Indian Children So Short ? Faculty Research Working Paper Series (2015) (1)
Economic Development and Gender Equality: Exceptions to the Rule (2017) (0)
The Impact of In-kind and Cash Transfers on Local Prices (2015) (0)
Odious Debt by Michael Kremer and Seema Jayachandran, Presented at the Conference on Macroeconomic Policies and Poverty Reduction (2002) (0)
Promoting Infant-Directed Speech in Northern Ghana (2021) (0)
Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) Vs. Public – A Case of Poor Public Relations (2013) (0)
Series WP-20-0 3 Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries (2020) (0)
Replication data for: Fertility Decline and Missing Women (2019) (0)
A Dictator’s Crippling Debt (2003) (0)
Cutting Down Trees for Emergency Cash: Why Access to Credit Can Make PES Programs More Effective (2013) (0)
Dictators and debt: Let's clarify the rules [1] (2005) (0)
Inexpensive Heating Reduces Winter Mortality (WP-19-09) (2019) (0)
Does Economic Development Mean Less Discrimination Against Women (2015) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES NOMINAL WAGE RIGIDITY IN VILLAGE LABOR MARKETS (2014) (0)
Understanding Fertility Choices in Burkina Faso (2018) (0)
Think Positive, Climb Out of Poverty? It Just Might Work (2018) (0)
WORKING PAPER SERIES ENVIRONMENTAL EXTERNALITIES AND FREERIDING IN THE HOUSEHOLD (2018) (0)
Replication data for: Mothers Care More, but Fathers Decide: Educating Parents about Child Health in Uganda (2019) (0)
Why the firstborn is more likely to succeed in life (2014) (0)
De-biasing people's over-optimism about their health risk (2020) (0)
Series WP-15-26 Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Attitudes : Evidence from India Diva Dhar Indian Statistical Institute (2015) (0)
A Mother’s Voice: Impacts of Spousal Communication Training on Child Health Investments (2023) (0)
Can Pay-for-Performance Improve Child Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries? A Review of the Evidence (2019) (0)
EFFECT ON MARKET EQUILIBRIUM: NEW EVIDENCE FROM LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE (2003) (0)
Design, Construction And Commissioning Of Heera-Uran Trunkline Project (1991) (0)
Odious Debt: Brookings Review (2003) (0)
Why Public Health Insurance Could Help, Even If You Don’t Want It (2017) (0)
Replication data for: Changing Family Attitudes to Promote Female Employment (2019) (0)
Forest conservation on a budget: Redesigning payments for ecosystem services in Mexico to increase cost-effectiveness (2021) (0)
Conditional versus Unconditional Means in Baseball (2015) (0)
Wage Volatility and Development: How Poor Workers Respond to Productivity Shocks (2003) (0)
Paying Farmers Not to Burn: A Randomized Trial of Payments for Ecosystem Services in India (2019) (0)

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