Seema Jayachandran

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• Princeton University / Department of Economics (weight: 50%)
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• Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) (weight: 1%)
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• Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (weight: 1%)
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• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) (weight: 1%)
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• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) / Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) (weight: 1%)
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• Princeton University / School of Public and International Affairs (weight: 46%)
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• Do Traditional Institutions Constrain Female Entrepreneurship? A Field Experiment on Business Training in India (RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:100:y:2010:i:2:p:125-29)
  by Erica Field & Seema Jayachandran & Rohini Pande
• Liquidity Constraints and Deforestation: The Limitations of Payments for Ecosystem Services (RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:103:y:2013:i:3:p:309-13)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• Mothers Care More, but Fathers Decide: Educating Parents about Child Health in Uganda (RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:107:y:2017:i:5:p:496-500)
  by Martina Björkman Nyqvist & Seema Jayachandran
• Why Are Indian Children So Short? The Role of Birth Order and Son Preference (RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:107:y:2017:i:9:p:2600-2629)
  by Seema Jayachandran & Rohini Pande
• Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India (RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:112:y:2022:i:3:p:899-927)
  by Diva Dhar & Tarun Jain & Seema Jayachandran
• Odious Debt (RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:96:y:2006:i:1:p:82-92)
  by Seema Jayachandran & Michael Kremer
• Modern Medicine and the Twentieth Century Decline in Mortality: Evidence on the Impact of Sulfa Drugs (RePEc:aea:aejapp:v:2:y:2010:i:2:p:118-46)
  by Seema Jayachandran & Adriana Lleras-Muney & Kimberly V. Smith
• Fertility Decline and Missing Women (RePEc:aea:aejapp:v:9:y:2017:i:1:p:118-39)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship? (RePEc:aea:aejpol:v:8:y:2016:i:2:p:125-53)
  by Erica Field & Seema Jayachandran & Rohini Pande & Natalia Rigol
• Detecting Mother-Father Differences in Spending on Children: A New Approach Using Willingness-to-Pay Elicitation (RePEc:aea:aerins:v:5:y:2023:i:4:p:445-59)
  by Rebecca Dizon-Ross & Seema Jayachandran
• Changing Family Attitudes to Promote Female Employment (RePEc:aea:apandp:v:109:y:2019:p:138-42)
  by Joshua T. Dean & Seema Jayachandran
• Improving Willingness-to-Pay Elicitation by Including a Benchmark Good (RePEc:aea:apandp:v:112:y:2022:p:551-55)
  by Rebecca Dizon-Ross & Seema Jayachandran
• Think Globally, Act Globally: Opportunities to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (RePEc:aea:jecper:v:37:y:2023:i:3:p:111-36)
  by Rachel Glennerster & Seema Jayachandran
• How Economic Development Influences the Environment (RePEc:anr:reveco:v:14:y:2022:p:229-252)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries (RePEc:anr:reveco:v:7:y:2015:p:63-88)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• Detecting Crop Burning in India using Satellite Data (RePEc:arx:papers:2209.10148)
  by Kendra Walker & Ben Moscona & Kelsey Jack & Seema Jayachandran & Namrata Kala & Rohini Pande & Jiani Xue & Marshall Burke
• Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries (RePEc:ces:ceswps:_8086)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• Using Machine Learning and Qualitative Interviews to Design a Five-Question Women's Agency Index (RePEc:ces:ceswps:_8984)
  by Seema Jayachandran & Monica Biradavolu & Jan Cooper
• Why Are Indian Children So Short? (RePEc:cid:wpfacu:292)
  by Seema Jayachandran & Rohini Pande
• The Jeffords Effect (RePEc:cla:uclaol:297)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• Odious Debt (RePEc:cla:uclaol:298)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• Air Quality and Infant Mortality During Indonesia's Massive Wildfires in 1997 (RePEc:cla:uclaol:358)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• Selling Labor Low: Wage Responses to Productivity Shocks in Developing Countries (RePEc:cla:uclaol:370)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• Redesigning payments for ecosystem services to increase cost-effectiveness (RePEc:col:000092:021022)
  by Izquierdo-Tort, Santiago & Jayachandran, Seema & Saavedra, Santiago
• Fertility Decline and Missing Women (RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:10049)
  by Jayachandran, Seema
• Why Are Indian Children So Short? (RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:10503)
  by Pande, Rohini & Jayachandran, Seema
• Cash for Carbon: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Deforestation (RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:11349)
  by Jayachandran, Seema & de Laat, Joost & Lambin, Eric F. & Stanton, Charlotte
• Environmental externalities and free-riding in the household (RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:12558)
  by Jayachandran, Seema & Jack, Kelsey & Rao, Sarojini
• Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India (RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:13413)
  by Jayachandran, Seema & Dhar, Diva & Jain, Tarun
• Inexpensive Heating Reduces Winter Mortality (RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:13603)
  by Jayachandran, Seema & Chirakijja, Janjala & Ong, Pinchuan
• Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries (RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:14368)
  by Jayachandran, Seema
• Using machine learning and qualitative interviews to design a five-question women's agency index (RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:15961)
  by Jayachandran, Seema & Biradavolu, Monica & Cooper, Jan
• A Mother’s Voice: Impacts of Spousal Communication Training on Child Health Investments (RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:17916)
  by Björkman Nyqvist, Martina & Jayachandran, Seema & Zipfel, Céline
• Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India (RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:7321)
  by Jayachandran, Seema & Kuziemko, Ilyana
• The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers (RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:8581)
  by De Giorgi, Giacomo & Jayachandran, Seema & Cunha, Jesse
• Does Economic Growth Reduce Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam (RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:9677)
  by Jayachandran, Seema & Olken, Benjamin & Bai, Jie & Malesky, Edmund J.
• Why Are Indian Children So Short (RePEc:ecl:harjfk:rwp15-016)
  by Jayachandran, Seema & Pande, Rohini
• Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship? (RePEc:ecl:harjfk:rwp15-019)
  by Field, Erica & Jayachandran, Seema & Pande, Rohini & Rigol, Natalia
• Incentives to teach badly: After-school tutoring in developing countries (RePEc:eee:deveco:v:108:y:2014:i:c:p:190-205)
  by Jayachandran, Seema
• A mother’s voice: Impacts of spousal communication training on child health investments (RePEc:eee:deveco:v:168:y:2024:i:c:s0304387824000129)
  by Nyqvist, Martina Björkman & Jayachandran, Seema & Zipfel, Céline
• Environmental externalities and free-riding in the household (RePEc:eee:deveco:v:170:y:2024:i:c:s0304387824000439)
  by Jack, B. Kelsey & Jayachandran, Seema & Malagutti, Flavio & Rao, Sarojini
• Using machine learning and qualitative interviews to design a five-question survey module for women’s agency (RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:161:y:2023:i:c:s0305750x22002662)
  by Jayachandran, Seema & Biradavolu, Monica & Cooper, Jan
• The Causes and Consequences of Increased Female Education and Labor Force Participation in Developing Countries (RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:11434)
  by Rachel Heath & Seema Jayachandran
• Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India (RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:2041)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• Does Economic Growth Reduce Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam (RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:5507)
  by Jie Bai & Seema Jayachandran
• Fertility Decline and Missing Women (RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:5936)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries (RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:6028)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• The price effects of cash versus in-kind transfers (RePEc:fip:fednsr:735)
  by Jesse M. Cunha & Giacomo De Giorgi & Seema Jayachandran
• A mother's voice: Impacts of spousal communication training on child health investments (RePEc:hhs:hamisu:2023_013)
  by Björkman Nyqvist, Martina & Jayachandran, Seema & Zipfel, Céline
• Inexpensive Heating Reduces Winter Mortality (RePEc:iza:izadps:dp12195)
  by Chirakijja, Janjala & Jayachandran, Seema & Ong, Pinchuan
• Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries (RePEc:iza:izadps:dp12943)
  by Jayachandran, Seema
• Using Machine Learning and Qualitative Interviews to Design a Five-Question Women's Agency Index (RePEc:iza:izadps:dp14221)
  by Jayachandran, Seema & Biradavolu, Monica & Cooper, Jan
• Inexpensive Heating Reduces Winter Mortality (RePEc:msh:ebswps:2021-9)
  by Janjala Chirakijja & Seema Jayachandran & Pinchuan Ong
• Self-selection into payments for ecosystem services programs (RePEc:nas:journl:v:116:y:2019:p:5326-5333)
  by B. Kelsey Jack & Seema Jayachandran
• Redesigning payments for ecosystem services to increase cost-effectiveness (RePEc:nat:natcom:v:15:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-024-53643-1)
  by Santiago Izquierdo-Tort & Seema Jayachandran & Santiago Saavedra
• Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence From Maternal Mortality Declines (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:13947)
  by Seema Jayachandran & Adriana Lleras-Muney
• Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia's Wildfires (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:14011)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:15041)
  by Seema Jayachandran & Ilyana Kuziemko
• Modern Medicine and the 20th Century Decline in Mortality: Evidence on the Impact of Sulfa Drugs (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:15089)
  by Seema Jayachandran & Adriana Lleras-Muney & Kimberly V. Smith
• The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:17456)
  by Jesse M. Cunha & Giacomo De Giorgi & Seema Jayachandran
• Does Economic Growth Reduce Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:19483)
  by Jie Bai & Seema Jayachandran & Edmund J. Malesky & Benjamin A. Olken
• Fertility Decline and Missing Women (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:20272)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:20380)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• Why Are Indian Children So Short? (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:21036)
  by Seema Jayachandran & Rohini Pande
• Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship? (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:21093)
  by Erica Field & Seema Jayachandran & Rohini Pande & Natalia Rigol
• Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Attitudes: Evidence from India (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:21429)
  by Diva Dhar & Tarun Jain & Seema Jayachandran
• Cash for Carbon: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Deforestation (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:22378)
  by Seema Jayachandran & Joost de Laat & Eric F. Lambin & Charlotte Y. Stanton
• The Causes and Consequences of Increased Female Education and Labor Force Participation in Developing Countries (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:22766)
  by Rachel Heath & Seema Jayachandran
• Environmental Externalities and Free-riding in the Household (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:24192)
  by Kelsey Jack & Seema Jayachandran & Sarojini Rao
• Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:25331)
  by Diva Dhar & Tarun Jain & Seema Jayachandran
• Inexpensive Heating Reduces Winter Mortality (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:25681)
  by Janjala Chirakijja & Seema Jayachandran & Pinchuan Ong
• Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:26661)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• Social Norms as a Barrier to Women's Employment in Developing Countries (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:27449)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• Using Machine Learning and Qualitative Interviews to Design a Five-Question Women's Agency Index (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:28626)
  by Seema Jayachandran & Monica Biradavolu & Jan Cooper
• How Economic Development Influences the Environment (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:29191)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• Improving Willingness-to-Pay Elicitation by Including a Benchmark Good (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:29814)
  by Rebecca Dizon-Ross & Seema Jayachandran
• Dads and Daughters: Disentangling Altruism and Investment Motives for Spending on Children (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:29912)
  by Rebecca Dizon-Ross & Seema Jayachandran
• The Inherent Trade-Off Between the Environmental and Anti-Poverty Goals of Payments for Ecosystem Services (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:29954)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:30690)
  by B. Kelsey Jack & Seema Jayachandran & Namrata Kala & Rohini Pande
• A Mother’s Voice: Impacts of Spousal Communication Training on Child Health Investments (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:30962)
  by Martina Björkman-Nyqvist & Seema Jayachandran & Celine P. Zipfel
• Informing Mothers about the Benefits of Conversing with Infants: Experimental Evidence from Ghana (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:31264)
  by Pascaline Dupas & Camille Falezan & Seema Jayachandran & Mark P. Walsh
• Think Globally, Act Globally: Opportunities to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:31421)
  by Rachel Glennerster & Seema Jayachandran
• Ten Facts about Son Preference in India (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:31883)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• The Negligible Effect of Free Contraception on Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:32427)
  by Pascaline Dupas & Seema Jayachandran & Adriana Lleras-Muney & Pauline Rossi
• Redesigning Payments for Ecosystem Services to Increase Cost-Effectiveness (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:32689)
  by Santiago Izquierdo-Tort & Seema Jayachandran & Santiago Saavedra
• Moving to Opportunity, Together (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:32970)
  by Seema Jayachandran & Lea Nassal & Matthew J. Notowidigdo & Marie Paul & Heather Sarsons & Elin Sundberg
• Odious Debt (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:8953)
  by Michael Kremer & Seema Jayachandran
• Ten Facts About Son Preference in India (RePEc:nca:ncaerj:v:20:y:2024:i:2024-1:p:159-192)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• Ten Facts About Son Preference in India (RePEc:nca:ncaerw:151)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• The Inherent Trade-Off Between the Environmental and Anti-Poverty Goals of Payments for Ecosystem Services (RePEc:osf:socarx:g67ax)
  by Jayachandran, Seema
• Introduction to Issue on Malnutrition (RePEc:oup:cesifo:v:58:y:2012:i:2:p:253-255)
  by Seema Jayachandran & Rohini Pande
• Firm Growth and Corruption: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam (RePEc:oup:econjl:v:129:y:2019:i:618:p:651-677.)
  by Jie Bai & Seema Jayachandran & Edmund J Malesky & Benjamin A Olken
• The Mortality Effects of Winter Heating Prices (RePEc:oup:econjl:v:134:y:2023:i:657:p:402-417.)
  by Janjala Chirakijja & Seema Jayachandran & Pinchuan Ong
• The Mortality Effects of Winter Heating Prices (RePEc:oup:econjl:v:134:y:2024:i:657:p:402-417.)
  by Janjala Chirakijja & Seema Jayachandran & Pinchuan Ong
• Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Maternal Mortality Declines (RePEc:oup:qjecon:v:124:y:2009:i:1:p:349-397.)
  by Seema Jayachandran & Adriana Lleras-Muney
• Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India (RePEc:oup:qjecon:v:126:y:2011:i:3:p:1485-1538)
  by Seema Jayachandran & Ilyana Kuziemko
• The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers (RePEc:oup:restud:v:86:y:2019:i:1:p:240-281.)
  by Jesse M Cunha & Giacomo De Giorgi & Seema Jayachandran
• Greater than the Sum of the Parts? Evidence on Mechanisms Operating in Women's Groups (RePEc:oup:wbrobs:v:38:y:2023:i:1:p:1-35.)
  by Lucía Díaz-Martin & Akshara Gopalan & Eleonora Guarnieri & Seema Jayachandran
• Social Norms as a Barrier to Women’s Employment in Developing Countries (RePEc:pal:imfecr:v:69:y:2021:i:3:d:10.1057_s41308-021-00140-w)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• The Mortality Effects of Winter Heating Prices (RePEc:pri:cepsud:305)
  by Janjala Chirakijja & Seema Jayachandran & Pinchuan Ong
• A Mother’s Voice: Impacts of Spousal Communication Training on Child Health Investments (RePEc:pri:cepsud:306)
  by Martina Bjorkman Nyqvist & Seema Jayachandran & Celine Zipfel
• Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning (RePEc:pri:cepsud:307)
  by B. Kelsey Jack & Seema Jayachandran & Namrata Kala & Rohini Pande
• Think Globally, Act Globally: Opportunities to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (RePEc:pri:cepsud:313)
  by Rachel Glennerster & Seema Jayachandran
• Informing Mothers about the Benefits of Conversing with Infants: Experimental Evidence from Ghana (RePEc:pri:cepsud:324)
  by Pascaline Dupas & Camille Falezan & Seema Jayachandran & Mark Walsh
• Redesigning payments for ecosystem services to increase cost-effectiveness (RePEc:pri:cepsud:325)
  by Santiago Izquierdo-Tort & Seema Jayachandran & Santiago Saavedra
• Moving to Opportunity, Together (RePEc:pri:cepsud:326)
  by Seema Jayachandran & Lea Nassal & Matthew Notowidigdo & Marie Paul & Heather Sarsons
• Negligible Effect of Free Contraception on Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso (RePEc:pri:cepsud:327)
  by Pascaline Dupas & Seema Jayachandran & Adriana Lleras-Muney & Pauline Rossi
• A Mother’s Voice: Impacts of Spousal Communication Training on Child Health Investments (RePEc:pri:econom:2023-11)
  by Martina Bjorkman Nyqvist & Seema Jayachandran & Celine Zipfel
• Ten Facts about Son Preference in India (RePEc:pri:econom:2023-12)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• Environmental Externalities and Free-Riding in the Household (RePEc:pri:econom:2023-13)
  by B. Kelsey Jack & Seema Jayachandran & Flavio Malagutti & Sarojini Rao
• Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning (RePEc:pri:econom:2023-14)
  by B. Kelsey Jack & Seema Jayachandran & Namrata Kala & Rohini Pande
• Does Contraceptive Use Always Reduce Breast-feeding? (RePEc:spr:demogr:v:51:y:2014:i:3:p:917-937)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Attitudes: Evidence from India (RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:55:y:2019:i:12:p:2572-2592)
  by Diva Dhar & Tarun Jain & Seema Jayachandran
• The Jeffords Effect (RePEc:ucp:jlawec:y:2006:v:49:i:2:p:397-425)
  by Jayachandran, Seema
• Selling Labor Low: Wage Responses to Productivity Shocks in Developing Countries (RePEc:ucp:jpolec:v:114:y:2006:i:3:p:538-575)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• Social norms as a barrier to women's employment in developing countries (RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2019-74)
  by Seema Jayachandran
• Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia’s Wildfires (RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:44:y:2009:i4:p916-954)
  by Seema Jayachandran