Browsing Journal Articles by Author "Jain, Tarun"

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    • Female leaders and their response to the social environment 

      Gangadharan, Lata; Jain, Tarun; Maitra, Pushkar; Vecci, Joseph (Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019)
      Using data from two sets of experiments conducted in rural India, this paper finds that relative to men, women assigned to be leaders contribute less than what they propose in a public goods game. We examine whether this ...

    • Lights out? COVID-19 containment policies and economic activity 

      Beyer, Robert C.M.; Jain, Tarun; Sinha, Sonalika (Elsevier, 2023-02-15)
      This paper estimates how strongly COVID-19 containment policies have impacted aggregate economic activity. We use a difference-in-differences methodology to estimate how containment zones of different severity across ...

    • Peer influence and IT career choice 

      Langer, Nishtha; Jain, Tarun (Informs, 2023-07-03)
      The productivity of the information technology (IT) industry depends on the supply of high-quality human capital, especially of managers who contribute to operational, finance, sales and marketing, and leadership roles. ...

    • Reshaping adolescents' gender attitudes: evidence from a school-based experiment in India 

      Jain, Tarun; Dhar, Diva; Jayachandran, Seema (American Economic Association, 2022-03)
      This paper evaluates an intervention in India that engaged adolescent girls and boys in classroom discussions about gender equality for two years, aiming to reduce their support for societal norms that restrict women's and ...

    • Science education and labor market outcomes in a developing economy 

      Jain, Tarun; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Prakash, Nishith; Rakesh, Raghav (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021-10-16)
      We examine the association between studying science in higher secondaryschool and labor market earnings in India. Studying science in high school isassociated with 22% greater earnings than studying business or humanities.Earnings ...

    • Social connections and tertiary healthcare utilization 

      Debnath, Sisir; Jain, Tarun (Health Economics, 2020)
      The use of tertiary health care by socially proximate peers helps individuals learn about program and treatment procedures, signals that using such care is socially appropriate, and could support the use of formal health ...

    • Women’s labor force participation and household technology adoption 

      Bose, Gautam; Jain, Tarun; Walker, Sarah (Elsevier, 2022-06-15)
      We examine how women’s employment leads to household technology adoption in the context of mid-century United States. Using World War II factories and male casualty rates as an instrument for female labor demand, we find ...