@techreport{NBERw16021, title = "Economic Opportunities and
Gender Differences in Human Capital: Experimental Evidence for
India", author = "Robert T. Jensen", institution = "National
Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series =
"Working Paper Series", number = "16021", year = "2010", month =
"May", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w16021", abstract =
{Gender differences in health and education are a concern for a
number of developing countries. While standard theory predicts
human capital should respond to market returns, social norms
(e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may weaken
or even sever this link for girls. Though many studies have
examined the link between women's wages or labor force
participation and investment in girls, two significant problems
are the possibility of omitted variables bias and reverse
causality, and difficulty in identifying which of several
mechanisms (returns, bargaining power, income, etc.) link the
two. To overcome these problems, we provi