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Seema Jayachandran

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First Name:Seema
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Last Name:Jayachandran
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RePEc Short-ID:pja86
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https://seemajayachandran.com
Twitter: @seema_econ
Terminal Degree:2004 Department of Economics; Harvard University (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

(50%) Department of Economics
Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (United States)
https://economics.princeton.edu/
RePEc:edi:deprius (more details at EDIRC)

(1%) Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

London, United Kingdom
http://www.cepr.org/
RePEc:edi:cebruuk (more details at EDIRC)

(1%) Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Bonn, Germany
http://www.iza.org/
RePEc:edi:izaaade (more details at EDIRC)

(1%) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
http://www.nber.org/
RePEc:edi:nberrus (more details at EDIRC)

(1%) Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
http://www.povertyactionlab.org/
RePEc:edi:jpmitus (more details at EDIRC)

(46%) School of Public and International Affairs
Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (United States)
https://spia.princeton.edu/
RePEc:edi:wwprius (more details at EDIRC)

Research output

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Working papers

  1. Jayachandran, Seema & Zipfel, Céline, 2023. "A Mother’s Voice: Impacts of Spousal Communication Training on Child Health Investments," CEPR Discussion Papers 17916, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  2. Janjala Chirakijja & Seema Jayachandran & Pinchuan Ong, 2023. "The Mortality Effects of Winter Heating Prices," Working Papers 305, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Policy Studies..
  3. Björkman Nyqvist, Martina & Jayachandran, Seema & Zipfel, Céline, 2023. "A mother's voice: Impacts of spousal communication training on child health investments," Misum Working Paper Series 2023-13, Stockholm School of Economics, Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets (Misum).
  4. Kendra Walker & Ben Moscona & Kelsey Jack & Seema Jayachandran & Namrata Kala & Rohini Pande & Jiani Xue & Marshall Burke, 2022. "Detecting Crop Burning in India using Satellite Data," Papers 2209.10148, arXiv.org.
  5. B. Kelsey Jack & Seema Jayachandran & Namrata Kala & Rohini Pande, 2022. "Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning," NBER Working Papers 30690, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  6. Rebecca Dizon-Ross & Seema Jayachandran, 2022. "Improving Willingness-to-Pay Elicitation by Including a Benchmark Good," NBER Working Papers 29814, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  7. Rebecca Dizon-Ross & Seema Jayachandran, 2022. "Dads and Daughters: Disentangling Altruism and Investment Motives for Spending on Children," NBER Working Papers 29912, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  8. Seema Jayachandran, 2022. "The Inherent Trade-Off Between the Environmental and Anti-Poverty Goals of Payments for Ecosystem Services," NBER Working Papers 29954, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  9. Seema Jayachandran & Monica Biradavolu & Jan Cooper, 2021. "Using Machine Learning and Qualitative Interviews to Design a Five-Question Women's Agency Index," CESifo Working Paper Series 8984, CESifo.
  10. Seema Jayachandran, 2021. "How Economic Development Influences the Environment," NBER Working Papers 29191, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  11. Seema Jayachandran, 2020. "Social Norms as a Barrier to Women's Employment in Developing Countries," NBER Working Papers 27449, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  12. Jayachandran, Seema, 2020. "Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries," CEPR Discussion Papers 14368, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  13. Seema Jayachandran, 2020. "Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries," CESifo Working Paper Series 8086, CESifo.
  14. Chirakijja, Janjala & Jayachandran, Seema & Ong, Pinchuan, 2019. "Inexpensive Heating Reduces Winter Mortality," CEPR Discussion Papers 13603, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  15. Jack, Kelsey & Jayachandran, Seema & Rao, Sarojini, 2018. "Environmental externalities and free-riding in the household," CEPR Discussion Papers 12558, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  16. Dhar, Diva & Jain, Tarun & Jayachandran, Seema, 2018. "Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India," CEPR Discussion Papers 13413, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  17. Rachel Heath & Seema Jayachandran, 2016. "The Causes and Consequences of Increased Female Education and Labor Force Participation in Developing Countries," Working Papers id:11434, eSocialSciences.
  18. Jayachandran, Seema & Laat, Joost de & Lambin, Eric F. & Stanton, Charlotte, 2016. "Cash for Carbon: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Deforestation," CEPR Discussion Papers 11349, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  19. Seema Jayachandran & Rohini Pande, 2015. "Why Are Indian Children So Short?," CID Working Papers 292, Center for International Development at Harvard University.
  20. Diva Dhar & Tarun Jain & Seema Jayachandran, 2015. "Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Attitudes: Evidence from India," NBER Working Papers 21429, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  21. Field, Erica & Jayachandran, Seema & Pande, Rohini & Rigol, Natalia, 2015. "Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship?," Working Paper Series rwp15-019, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
  22. Jayachandran, Seema, 2014. "Fertility Decline and Missing Women," CEPR Discussion Papers 10049, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  23. Seema Jayachandran, 2014. "The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries," Working Papers id:6028, eSocialSciences.
  24. Bai, Jie & Jayachandran, Seema & Malesky, Edmund J. & Olken, Benjamin, 2013. "Does Economic Growth Reduce Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam," CEPR Discussion Papers 9677, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  25. Cunha, Jesse & De Giorgi, Giacomo & Jayachandran, Seema, 2011. "The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers," CEPR Discussion Papers 8581, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  26. Seema Jayachandran & Adriana Lleras-Muney & Kimberly V. Smith, 2009. "Modern Medicine and the 20th Century Decline in Mortality: Evidence on the Impact of Sulfa Drugs," NBER Working Papers 15089, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  27. Jayachandran, Seema & Kuziemko, Ilyana, 2009. "Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India," CEPR Discussion Papers 7321, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  28. Seema Jayachandran & Adriana Lleras-Muney, 2008. "Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence From Maternal Mortality Declines," NBER Working Papers 13947, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  29. Seema Jayachandran, 2008. "Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia's Wildfires," NBER Working Papers 14011, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  30. Seema Jayachandran, 2005. "Air Quality and Infant Mortality During Indonesia's Massive Wildfires in 1997," UCLA Economics Online Papers 358, UCLA Department of Economics.
  31. Seema Jayachandran, 2005. "Selling Labor Low: Wage Responses to Productivity Shocks in Developing Countries," UCLA Economics Online Papers 370, UCLA Department of Economics.
  32. Seema Jayachandran, 2004. "Odious Debt," UCLA Economics Online Papers 298, UCLA Department of Economics.
  33. Seema Jayachandran, 2004. "The Jeffords Effect," UCLA Economics Online Papers 297, UCLA Department of Economics.

Articles

  1. Jayachandran, Seema & Biradavolu, Monica & Cooper, Jan, 2023. "Using machine learning and qualitative interviews to design a five-question survey module for women’s agency," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 161(C).
  2. Rebecca Dizon-Ross & Seema Jayachandran, 2022. "Improving Willingness-to-Pay Elicitation by Including a Benchmark Good," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 112, pages 551-555, May.
  3. Seema Jayachandran, 2022. "How Economic Development Influences the Environment," Annual Review of Economics, Annual Reviews, vol. 14(1), pages 229-252, August.
  4. Diva Dhar & Tarun Jain & Seema Jayachandran, 2022. "Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 112(3), pages 899-927, March.
  5. Seema Jayachandran, 2021. "Social Norms as a Barrier to Women’s Employment in Developing Countries," IMF Economic Review, Palgrave Macmillan;International Monetary Fund, vol. 69(3), pages 576-595, September.
  6. Diva Dhar & Tarun Jain & Seema Jayachandran, 2019. "Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Attitudes: Evidence from India," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(12), pages 2572-2592, December.
  7. B. Kelsey Jack & Seema Jayachandran, 2019. "Self-selection into payments for ecosystem services programs," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 116(12), pages 5326-5333, March.
  8. Jesse M Cunha & Giacomo De Giorgi & Seema Jayachandran, 2019. "The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers," Review of Economic Studies, Oxford University Press, vol. 86(1), pages 240-281.
  9. Jie Bai & Seema Jayachandran & Edmund J Malesky & Benjamin A Olken, 2019. "Firm Growth and Corruption: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 129(618), pages 651-677.
  10. Joshua T. Dean & Seema Jayachandran, 2019. "Changing Family Attitudes to Promote Female Employment," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 109, pages 138-142, May.
  11. Seema Jayachandran & Rohini Pande, 2017. "Why Are Indian Children So Short? The Role of Birth Order and Son Preference," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 107(9), pages 2600-2629, September.
  12. Martina Björkman Nyqvist & Seema Jayachandran, 2017. "Mothers Care More, but Fathers Decide: Educating Parents about Child Health in Uganda," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 107(5), pages 496-500, May.
  13. Seema Jayachandran, 2017. "Fertility Decline and Missing Women," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 9(1), pages 118-139, January.
  14. Erica Field & Seema Jayachandran & Rohini Pande & Natalia Rigol, 2016. "Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship?," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association, vol. 8(2), pages 125-153, May.
  15. Seema Jayachandran, 2015. "The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries," Annual Review of Economics, Annual Reviews, vol. 7(1), pages 63-88, August.
  16. Jayachandran, Seema, 2014. "Incentives to teach badly: After-school tutoring in developing countries," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 108(C), pages 190-205.
  17. Seema Jayachandran, 2014. "Does Contraceptive Use Always Reduce Breast-feeding?," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 51(3), pages 917-937, June.
  18. Seema Jayachandran, 2013. "Liquidity Constraints and Deforestation: The Limitations of Payments for Ecosystem Services," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 103(3), pages 309-313, May.
  19. Seema Jayachandran & Rohini Pande, 2012. "Introduction to Issue on Malnutrition," CESifo Economic Studies, CESifo, vol. 58(2), pages 253-255, June.
  20. Seema Jayachandran & Ilyana Kuziemko, 2011. "Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 126(3), pages 1485-1538.
  21. Erica Field & Seema Jayachandran & Rohini Pande, 2010. "Do Traditional Institutions Constrain Female Entrepreneurship? A Field Experiment on Business Training in India," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 100(2), pages 125-129, May.
  22. Seema Jayachandran & Adriana Lleras-Muney & Kimberly V. Smith, 2010. "Modern Medicine and the Twentieth Century Decline in Mortality: Evidence on the Impact of Sulfa Drugs," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 2(2), pages 118-146, April.
  23. Seema Jayachandran, 2009. "Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia’s Wildfires," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 44(4).
  24. Seema Jayachandran & Adriana Lleras-Muney, 2009. "Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Maternal Mortality Declines," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 124(1), pages 349-397.
  25. Seema Jayachandran, 2006. "Selling Labor Low: Wage Responses to Productivity Shocks in Developing Countries," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 114(3), pages 538-575, June.
  26. Jayachandran, Seema, 2006. "The Jeffords Effect," Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 49(2), pages 397-425, October.
  27. Seema Jayachandran & Michael Kremer, 2006. "Odious Debt," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 96(1), pages 82-92, March.

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NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 54 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-DEV: Development (12) 2006-02-19 2008-05-31 2009-07-03 2011-10-09 2013-10-02 2014-06-02 2015-08-13 2015-08-25 2016-07-09 2016-07-16 2023-03-13 2023-03-27. Author is listed
  2. NEP-EXP: Experimental Economics (11) 2015-04-19 2015-08-25 2015-09-05 2016-07-09 2016-07-16 2018-01-29 2019-01-07 2019-03-04 2023-01-02 2023-03-13 2023-03-27. Author is listed
  3. NEP-ENV: Environmental Economics (10) 2008-05-31 2016-07-09 2016-07-16 2018-01-22 2018-01-29 2021-09-06 2022-05-16 2022-10-24 2022-12-05 2023-01-02. Author is listed
  4. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (9) 2006-02-19 2008-04-21 2008-05-31 2009-06-17 2009-07-03 2019-04-01 2021-08-30 2023-03-13 2023-03-27. Author is listed
  5. NEP-AGR: Agricultural Economics (8) 2011-10-01 2011-10-09 2015-08-25 2016-07-09 2016-07-16 2022-05-16 2022-12-05 2023-01-02. Author is listed
  6. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (7) 2006-02-19 2008-04-21 2015-08-13 2016-10-30 2020-03-09 2020-03-16 2020-08-24. Author is listed
  7. NEP-ENE: Energy Economics (6) 2006-02-19 2018-01-22 2019-04-01 2019-04-01 2019-04-15 2021-08-30. Author is listed
  8. NEP-ENT: Entrepreneurship (6) 2015-04-19 2015-09-05 2020-02-17 2020-03-09 2020-03-16 2020-07-27. Author is listed
  9. NEP-CWA: Central & Western Asia (5) 2009-06-17 2009-07-03 2009-07-03 2021-03-29 2021-09-06. Author is listed
  10. NEP-EVO: Evolutionary Economics (5) 2014-08-20 2015-03-27 2015-04-11 2015-09-05 2017-04-02. Author is listed
  11. NEP-SOC: Social Norms & Social Capital (5) 2015-04-19 2015-09-05 2019-11-25 2020-08-24 2022-05-02. Author is listed
  12. NEP-BIG: Big Data (4) 2021-03-29 2021-04-19 2021-05-10 2022-10-24
  13. NEP-DEM: Demographic Economics (4) 2015-04-19 2015-08-13 2015-09-05 2016-10-30
  14. NEP-HME: Heterodox Microeconomics (4) 2019-01-07 2019-03-04 2019-11-25 2020-08-24
  15. NEP-SEA: South East Asia (4) 2006-02-19 2008-05-31 2013-10-02 2014-06-02
  16. NEP-CMP: Computational Economics (3) 2021-03-29 2021-04-05 2021-05-10
  17. NEP-GEN: Gender (3) 2016-10-30 2019-01-07 2019-11-25
  18. NEP-GRO: Economic Growth (3) 2014-06-02 2014-08-16 2014-12-29
  19. NEP-IUE: Informal & Underground Economics (3) 2020-03-09 2020-03-16 2020-07-27
  20. NEP-MFD: Microfinance (3) 2015-04-19 2015-09-05 2020-03-09
  21. NEP-REG: Regulation (3) 2018-01-22 2018-01-29 2019-04-15
  22. NEP-DCM: Discrete Choice Models (2) 2022-04-25 2022-05-02
  23. NEP-EDU: Education (2) 2008-04-21 2016-10-30
  24. NEP-FDG: Financial Development & Growth (2) 2020-03-09 2021-09-06
  25. NEP-HAP: Economics of Happiness (2) 2008-04-21 2008-05-31
  26. NEP-ISF: Islamic Finance (2) 2021-08-30 2021-09-06
  27. NEP-MKT: Marketing (2) 2011-10-01 2011-10-09
  28. NEP-SBM: Small Business Management (2) 2020-03-16 2020-07-27
  29. NEP-ARA: MENA - Middle East & North Africa (1) 2014-08-28
  30. NEP-EFF: Efficiency & Productivity (1) 2006-02-19
  31. NEP-GER: German Papers (1) 2016-07-16
  32. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic & Financial History (1) 2009-07-03
  33. NEP-HRM: Human Capital & Human Resource Management (1) 2008-04-21
  34. NEP-LAW: Law & Economics (1) 2002-06-13
  35. NEP-PBE: Public Economics (1) 2014-06-02
  36. NEP-RES: Resource Economics (1) 2018-01-29
  37. NEP-URE: Urban & Real Estate Economics (1) 2015-09-05

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