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Seema Jayachandran

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Publications

56

Citations

7.4K

H-Index

34

Active since

2004

Affiliations

Northwestern University(Current)

National Bureau of Economic Research

Princeton University

Stanford University

University of Oxford

Seema Jayachandran is an author at Northwestern University specializing in public health, business, and social sciences.

Top concepts

Public HealthBusinessSociologySocial SciencesGenderEconomicsEngineeringFeminist TheoryEducationSocial Inequality

Publications per year

2004–2025

56

Publications

56

The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries

Seema Jayachandran · Annual Review of Economics · 2015 · 899 citations

Women Empowerment, Gender Justice, Poor Today +17

Cash for carbon: A randomized trial of payments for ecosystem services to reduce deforestation

Seema Jayachandran, Joost de Laat, Éric F. Lambin et al. · Science · 2017 · 509 citations

Engineering, Program Costs, Land Use +20

Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India

Seema Jayachandran, Ilyana Kuziemko · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2011 · 459 citations

Family Medicine, Parental Care, Fertility +21

Selling Labor Low: Wage Responses to Productivity Shocks in Developing Countries

Seema Jayachandran · Journal of Political Economy · 2006 · 456 citations

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

Erica Field, Seema Jayachandran, Rohini Pande · American Economic Review · 2010 · 407 citations

Women Empowerment, Rohini Pande, Gender Disparity +14

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