The Relative Impact of Culture, Economics and Public Action on Women’s Agency: A Comparative Analysis of North and South India FIRST DRAFT – COMMENTS WELCOME

The data used in this paper was collected by NCAER under a project jointly supervised by Sonalde Desai and Vijayendra Rao with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. We are indebted to Sonalde Desai for her contribution to the survey and sampling design, and thank NCAER and the Rockefeller Foundation for their input and support. The analysis for the paper was partially funded by the Gender Division of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Group (PRMGE) of the World Bank. We thank them for their support, and Monica Das Gupta for valuable discussions. We absolve all of the above, and the World Bank, from any responsibility for the findings, interpretations and conclusions of this paper which are exclusively those of the authors.