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Books, Book Chapters and Articles by WAPPP Faculty and Affiliates

Listed below are books, book chapters and articles authored by affiliates of the Women and Public Policy Program.

Articles

Female Leadership Raises Aspirations and Educational Attainment for Girls: A Policy Experiment in India Rohini Pande. (with Lori Beaman, Esther Duflo, and Petia Topolava). Sciencexpress DOI: 10.1126/science.1212382, January 12, 2012. Reprint January 25, 2012.

“Moving Teenagers Out of High Risk Neighborhoods: How Girls Fare Better than Boys.” By Kathryn Edin et al. American Journal of Sociology. Forthcoming 2011.

“Young Disadvantaged Men as Partners.” By Kathryn Edin and Laura Tach. Young Disadvantaged Men: Fathers, Families, Poverty, and Policy. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Forthcoming 2011.

"Trust and the Reference Points for Trustworthiness in Gulf and Western Countries." [Download PDF] By Iris Bohnet et al. Quarterly Journal of Economics CXXV (2), May 2010: 811-828.

"Do Traditional Institutions Constrain Female Entrepreneurship? A Field Experiment on Business Training in India." By Rohini Pande et al. American Economic Review 100(2), May 2010: 125–29.

“Parenting as a Package Deal: Child Involvement among Unmarried Fathers.” Demography 47(1), February 2010: 181-204.

“Low Income Non Custodial Men’s Role in Fertility Decisions.” By Kathryn Edin et al. Pathways to Fatherhood: A Transatlantic Perspective. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 624(1), July 2009: 99-117.

“Poverty and the Family: A Decade in Review.” By Kathryn Edin and Rebecca J. Kissane. Journal of Marriage and Family 72(3), June 2010: 460–479.

“Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?” By Rohini Pande et al. Quarterly Journal of Economics 124 (4), November 2009: 1497–1540.

"Exploring Gendered Behavior in the Field with Experiments: Why Public Goods are Provided by Women in a Nairobi Slum." [Download PDF] By Iris Bohnet and Fiona Greig. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 70(1), May 2009: 1-9.

“Claiming Fatherhood: Race and the Dynamics of Father Involvement among Unmarried Men.” By Kathryn Edin et al. The Moynihan Report Revisited: Lessons and Reflections after Four Decades. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 621(1), January 2009: 149-177.

"Are Outside Offers an Answer to the Compensation Negotiation Dilemma for Women?" By Hannah Riley Bowles and Linda Babcock. Academy of Management Proceedings 2009.

"Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game." By Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn. Negotiation Journal 24(4), October 2008: 393-410.

"Gender Differences in Research Grant Applications and Funding Outcomes for Medical School Faculty." By Hannah Riley Bowles et al. Journal of Women's Health 17(2), March 2008: 207-214.

“Is There Reciprocity in a Reciprocal-Exchange Economy? Evidence of Gendered Norms from a Slum in Nairobi, Kenya.” [Download PDF] By Iris Bohnet and Fiona Greig. Economic Inquiry 46(1), January 2008: 77-83.

"A Closer Look at the Gender Gap." By Hannah Riley Bowles. Negotiation 11, 2008: 8.

“Status and Distrust: The Relevance of Inequality and Betrayal Aversion.” [Download PDF] By Iris Bohnet and Kessely Hong. Journal of Economic Psychology 28(2007): 197-213.

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Working papers

"When Performance Trumps Gender Bias." [Download PDF] by Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen, and Max H. Bazerman. Working paper, 2012.

Marriage Structure and Resistance to the Gender Revolution in the Workplace." [Download PDF] By Sreedhari D. Desai et. all. Working paper, 2012.

“Performance and Information: The Role of Organizational Demography.” [Download PDF] By Iris Bohnet and Farzad Saidi. Working paper, 2011.

"The Closing of the Gender Gap in Education: Does it Foretell the Closing of the Employment, Marriage, and Motherhood Gaps?" [Download PDF] By Ina Ganguli, Ricardo Hausmann and Martina Viarengo. Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government (2011)

"The Elasticity of Trust: How to Promote Trust in the Arab Middle East and the United States" [Download PDF] By Iris Bohnet et. all, Harvard Kennedy School (2010)

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Books and edited volumes

Eichler, Maya. Militarizing Men: Gender, Conscription, and War in Post-Soviet Russia, Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2012.

When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home. By Paula Caplan, MIT Press 2011.

Gender and Negotiation by Iris Bohnet and Hannah Riley Bowles. Negotiation Journal. Special Issue. (October 2008)

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Book chapters

“Becoming a Parent: Social Contexts of Fertility During Young Adulthood.” By Kathryn Edin and Laura Tach. In Early Adulthood in the Family Context. Eds. Nan Crouter and Alan Booth. Washington DC: Urban Institute Press. Forthcoming 2011.

“Daddy, Baby; Momma Maybe: Low Income Urban Fathers and the ‘Package Deal’ of Family Life.” By Kathrn Edin et al. In Families in an Unequal Society. Eds. Paula England and Marcia Carlson. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. Forthcoming 2011.

Political Reservation and Substantive Representation: Evidence from Indian Village Councils. India Policy Forum 2010-11, Eds. Suman Bery, Barry Bosworth and Arvind Panagariya, Brookings Institution Press and The National Council of Applied Economic Research: Washington, DC and New Delhi, 2011, Vol. 7.

Politics as a Male Domain and Empowerment in India. By Rohini Pande et al. In The Impact of Gender Quotas: Women's Descriptive, Substantive, and Symbolic Representation. Eds Susan Franceschet, Mona Lena Krook, and Jennifer M. Piscopo, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2011.

"Wombfare: The Religious Basis of Fertility Politics.” By Monica Toft. In Political Demography: Identity, Institutions and Conflict, Eds. Monica Duffy Toft, Jack Goldstone and Eric Kaufmann, Paradigm, forthcoming 2011.

"Untapped Potential in the Study of Negotiation and Gender Inequality in Organizations." By Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen McGinn. The Academy of Management Annals, Vol. 2. Ed. James P. Walsh and Arthur P. Brief. Routlege, 2008, 99-132.

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Background papers

Gender Quotas and Female Leadership: A Review. By Rohini Pande and Deanna Ford. Background Paper for the World Development Report 2012.

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Commentary & News

"A world of bluestockings: Women are now more highly educated than men, but they don’t get the jobs to match." Financial Times, November 26, 2011.

"Gender equality: a nudge in the right direction." By Iris Bohnet. Financial Times, October 13, 2010.

"Microcredit is not the Enemy." By Rohini Pande et al. Financial Times, December 12, 2010.

“Can Political Affirmative Action for Women Reduce Gender Bias?” By Rohini Pande et al. Vox, January 8, 2009.

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