Subha Mani
Biographic Data
| ID | 4080495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Subha Mani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Subha |
| FAMILY NAME | Mani |
| SIGNATURE | MANI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fordham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1831-7108 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Improving Parenting Practices for Child Development
We examine the impact of an integrated parenting program designed to improve parent–child interactions. Exploiting experimental variation in program access, we show that the intervention improves the overall parenting practice index by 0.38 standard deviations and increases parental material investments by 0.64 standard deviations. We also find improvements in children's health, including a 3‐percentage‐point reduction in the prevalence of wastin…
Conscientiousness and Labour Market Outcomes
Personality traits play an important role in determining earnings; however, the specific behaviours related to personality traits that explain the earnings differentials remain unclear. Using panel data from Indonesia, we examine the associations between Big Five personality traits and employment and earnings, as well as the potential channels linking personality to these outcomes. We find that conscientiousness is a robust predictor of both empl…
Games of prejudice - experiments with adolescents
Social Identity, Behavior, and Personality
Hierarchies in social identities are integrally related to divergences in economic status. In India, caste is a significant social identity where discriminatory practices have resulted in poor outcomes for the lower castes. While there is considerable research on differences in economic outcomes along caste lines, there is limited work on behavioral preferences and personality traits that can also be adversely affected by such identity hierarchie…
Effects of Peers and Rank on Cognition, Preferences, and Personality
We exploit the variation in admission cutoffs across colleges at a leading Indian university to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on cognitive attainment, economic preferences, and Big Five personality traits. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that enrolling in a selective college improves university exam scores of the marginally admitted women and makes them less overconfident and less risk averse, wh…
Are responses to the pandemic inclusive? A rapid virtual audit of Covid-19 press briefings in LMICs
Impact of the NREGS on Children’s Intellectual Human Capital
This paper uses panel data from the Young Lives Survey to examine the effect of the world's largest public works program and India's flagship social protection program, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), on children's learning outcomes such as grade progression, reading comprehension test scores, writing test scores, math test scores, and Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) scores. We find that the program has strong posit…
Can gender differences in distributional preferences explain gender gaps in competition
Barriers to skill acquisition
Searching for preference stability in a state dependent world
Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Inequality
Academic and policy literatures on intergenerational transmissions of poverty and inequality suggest that improving schooling attainment and income for parents in poor households will lessen poverty and inequality in their children’s generation through increased human capital accumulated by their children. However, magnitudes of such effects are unknown. We use data on children born in the twenty-first century in four developing countries to simu…
Searching for religious discrimination among Anganwadi workers in India
This paper examines whether, in India, discriminatory practices by government-employed child caregivers along religious lines, lead to differential health outcomes among the care receiving children. Child caregivers participate in a novel allocation game where we incorporate treatments to disentangle statistical and taste-based discrimination. Our findings find no evidence of taste-based discrimination or statistical discrimination among the chil…
Growth trajectories from conception through middle childhood and cognitive achievement at age 8 years
Child chronic malnutrition is endemic in low- and middle-income countries and deleterious for child development. Studies investigating the relationship between nutrition at different periods of childhood, as measured by growth in these periods (growth trajectories), and cognitive development have produced mixed evidence. Although an explanation of this has been that different studies use different approaches to model growth trajectories, the diff…
Dynamics in Health and Employment
Only Mine or All Ours
Long-term impact of investments in early schooling — Empirical evidence from rural Ethiopia
Can gender differences in distributional preferences explain gender gaps in competition
Searching for preference stability in a state dependent world
Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Inequality
Academic and policy literatures on intergenerational transmissions of poverty and inequality suggest that improving schooling attainment and income for parents in poor households will lessen poverty and inequality in their children’s generation through increased human capital accumulated by their children. However, magnitudes of such effects are unknown. We use data on children born in the twenty-first century in four developing countries to simu…
Barriers to skill acquisition
Dynamics in Health and Employment
Only Mine or All Ours
Long-term impact of investments in early schooling — Empirical evidence from rural Ethiopia
Long-term impact of investments in early schooling — Empirical evidence from rural Ethiopia
Only Mine or All Ours
Searching for religious discrimination among Anganwadi workers in India
This paper examines whether, in India, discriminatory practices by government-employed child caregivers along religious lines, lead to differential health outcomes among the care receiving children. Child caregivers participate in a novel allocation game where we incorporate treatments to disentangle statistical and taste-based discrimination. Our findings find no evidence of taste-based discrimination or statistical discrimination among the chil…
Growth trajectories from conception through middle childhood and cognitive achievement at age 8 years
Child chronic malnutrition is endemic in low- and middle-income countries and deleterious for child development. Studies investigating the relationship between nutrition at different periods of childhood, as measured by growth in these periods (growth trajectories), and cognitive development have produced mixed evidence. Although an explanation of this has been that different studies use different approaches to model growth trajectories, the diff…
Dynamics in Health and Employment
Searching for preference stability in a state dependent world
Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Inequality
Academic and policy literatures on intergenerational transmissions of poverty and inequality suggest that improving schooling attainment and income for parents in poor households will lessen poverty and inequality in their children’s generation through increased human capital accumulated by their children. However, magnitudes of such effects are unknown. We use data on children born in the twenty-first century in four developing countries to simu…
Barriers to skill acquisition
Can gender differences in distributional preferences explain gender gaps in competition
Are responses to the pandemic inclusive? A rapid virtual audit of Covid-19 press briefings in LMICs
Impact of the NREGS on Children’s Intellectual Human Capital
This paper uses panel data from the Young Lives Survey to examine the effect of the world's largest public works program and India's flagship social protection program, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), on children's learning outcomes such as grade progression, reading comprehension test scores, writing test scores, math test scores, and Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) scores. We find that the program has strong posit…
Effects of Peers and Rank on Cognition, Preferences, and Personality
We exploit the variation in admission cutoffs across colleges at a leading Indian university to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on cognitive attainment, economic preferences, and Big Five personality traits. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that enrolling in a selective college improves university exam scores of the marginally admitted women and makes them less overconfident and less risk averse, wh…
Social Identity, Behavior, and Personality
Hierarchies in social identities are integrally related to divergences in economic status. In India, caste is a significant social identity where discriminatory practices have resulted in poor outcomes for the lower castes. While there is considerable research on differences in economic outcomes along caste lines, there is limited work on behavioral preferences and personality traits that can also be adversely affected by such identity hierarchie…
Games of prejudice - experiments with adolescents
Improving Parenting Practices for Child Development
We examine the impact of an integrated parenting program designed to improve parent–child interactions. Exploiting experimental variation in program access, we show that the intervention improves the overall parenting practice index by 0.38 standard deviations and increases parental material investments by 0.64 standard deviations. We also find improvements in children's health, including a 3‐percentage‐point reduction in the prevalence of wastin…
Conscientiousness and Labour Market Outcomes
Personality traits play an important role in determining earnings; however, the specific behaviours related to personality traits that explain the earnings differentials remain unclear. Using panel data from Indonesia, we examine the associations between Big Five personality traits and employment and earnings, as well as the potential channels linking personality to these outcomes. We find that conscientiousness is a robust predictor of both empl…
Economics (13 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (5 works) · Big Five personality traits (4 works) · Demography (4 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (4 works)