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Overview

Rohini Pande is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and works primarily in the social sciences. Their research spans several interconnected subfields, including economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, gender studies, global and planetary change, and political science and international relations.

The main topics addressed in Rohini Pande's work include gender, labor, and family dynamics; microfinance and financial inclusion; conservation, biodiversity, and resource management; air quality monitoring and forecasting; migration, health, and trauma; economic and environmental valuation; and electoral systems and political participation.

Recent papers by Rohini Pande include the following:

  • On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms, 2021, American Economic Review
  • E-governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs: Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India, 2020, American Economic Journal Applied Economics
  • For the Sake of Family and Tradition: Honour Killings in India and Pakistan, 2020, Antyajaa Indian Journal of Women and Social Change
  • Value for money? Vote-buying and politician accountability, 2020, Journal of Public Economics
  • Can democracy work for the poor?, 2020, Science

Frequent coauthors working with Rohini Pande include Simone Schaner, Charity Troyer Moore, Erica Field, Natalia Rigol, and Anant Sudarshan.

Rohini Pande's publications have appeared repeatedly in specific venues, with multiple works in AEA Randomized Controlled Trials, SSRN Electronic Journal, Science, Harvard Dataverse, and American Economic Review.

In addition to journal articles, Rohini Pande has contributed to book publications with the World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks. Titles include "Barriers to the Inclusion of Women and Marginalized Groups in Nigeria's ID System" (2021) and "Understanding the Gender Gap in ID: Key Research Findings and Policy Lessons from Nigeria" (2021).

Best Publications

  • Do rural banks matter? Evidence from the indian social banking experiment

    Robin Burgess;Rohini Pande

  • Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?

    Lori Beaman;Raghabendra Chattopadhyay;Esther Duflo;Rohini Pande

  • Corruption in Developing Countries

    Benjamin A. Olken;Rohini Pande

  • Female leadership raises aspirations and educational attainment for girls: a policy experiment in India.

    Lori Beaman;Esther Duflo;Rohini Pande;Petia Topalova

  • Can Mandated Political Representation Increase Policy Influence for Disadvantaged Minorities? Theory and Evidence from India

    Rohini Pande

  • Can Mandated Political Representation Increase Policy Influence for Disadvantaged Minorities? Theory and Evidence from India

    Rohini Pande

  • Why Have Women Become Left-Wing? The Political Gender Gap and the Decline in Marriage

    Lena Edlund;Rohini Pande

  • Institutions and Development: A View from Below

    Rohini Pande;Christopher R. Udry

  • Just Rewards? Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India

    Timothy Besley;Rohini Pande;Vijayendra Rao

  • Do Informed Voters Make Better Choices? Experimental Evidence from Urban India

    Abhijit V. Banerjee;Selvan Kumar;Rohini Pande;Felix Su

  • Do Traditional Institutions Constrain Female Entrepreneurship? A Field Experiment on Business Training in India

    Erica Field;Seema Jayachandran;Rohini Pande

  • Truth-telling by Third-party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms: Experimental Evidence from India

    Esther Duflo;Michael Greenstone;Rohini Pande;Nicholas Ryan

  • Truth-telling by Third-party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms: Experimental Evidence from India*

    Esther Duflo;Michael Greenstone;Rohini Pande;Nicholas Ryan

  • THE POLITICS OF PUBLIC GOOD PROVISION: EVIDENCE FROM INDIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

    Timothy Besley;Rohini Pande;Lupin Rahman;Vijayendra Rao

  • Institutions and Development: A View from Below

    Rohini Pande;Christopher R. Udry

  • Does the Classic Microfinance Model Discourage Entrepreneurship Among the Poor? Experimental Evidence from India †

    Erica Field;Rohini Pande;John Papp;Natalia Rigol

  • Political selection and the quality of government: evidence from south India

    Timothy Besley;Rohini Pande;Vijayendra Rao

  • Can Informed Voters Enforce Better Governance? Experiments in Low-Income Democracies

    Rohini Pande

  • REPAYMENT FREQUENCY AND DEFAULT IN MICROFINANCE: EVIDENCE FROM INDIA

    Erica Field;Rohini Pande

  • The Economic Returns to Social Interaction: Experimental Evidence from Microfinance

    Benjamin Feigenberg;Erica Field;Rohini Pande

  • Challenging assumptions about women's empowerment: social and economic resources and domestic violence among young married women in urban South India.

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  • Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence From Public Works in India and Indonesia

    Sean Lewis-Faupel;Yusuf Neggers;Benjamin A. Olken;Rohini Pande

  • PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY IN ACTION: SURVEY EVIDENCE FROM SOUTH INDIA

    Timothy Besley;Rohini Pande;Vijayendra Rao

  • Why Are Indian Children So Short? The Role of Birth Order and Son Preference

    Seema Jayachandran;Rohini Pande

  • BANKING FOR THE POOR: EVIDENCE FROM INDIA

    Robin Burgess;Rohini Pande;Grace Wong

  • Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment

    Robin Burgess;Robin Burgess;Robin Burgess;Rohini Pande

  • Are Poor Voters Indifferent to Whether Elected Leaders Are Criminal or Corrupt? A Vignette Experiment in Rural India

    Abhijit Banerjee;Donald P. Green;Jeffery McManus;Rohini Pande

  • Political Reservation and Substantive Representation: Evidence from Indian Village Councils

    Lori A Beaman;Esther Duflo;Esther Duflo;Rohini Pande;Petia Topalova

  • Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital among Female Microentrepreneurs

    Arielle Bernhardt;Erica Field;Rohini Pande;Natalia Rigol

  • Segregation, Rent Control, and Riots: The Economics of Religious Conflict in an Indian City

    Erica Field;Matthew Levinson;Rohini Pande;Sujata Visaria

  • The Personnel Economics of the Developing State

    F. Finan;B.A. Olken;R. Pande

  • Gender Quotas and Female Leadership: A Review

    Rohini Pande;Deanna Ford

  • On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms

    Erica Field;Rohini Pande;Natalia Rigol;Simone Schaner

  • Political Selection and the Qualilty of Government: Evidence from South India

    Timothy Besley;Rohini Pande;Vijayendra Rao

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy Besley
Timothy Besley London School of Economics and Political Science
Vijayendra Rao
Vijayendra Rao World Bank
Michael Greenstone
Michael Greenstone University of Chicago
Robin Burgess
Robin Burgess London School of Economics and Political Science
Petia Topalova
Petia Topalova International Monetary Fund
Jonathan Zinman
Jonathan Zinman Dartmouth College
Dean Karlan
Dean Karlan Northwestern University

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