Gauri Kartini Shastry
Biographic Data
| ID | 6447845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gauri Kartini Shastry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gauri Kartini |
| FAMILY NAME | Shastry |
| SIGNATURE | SHASTRY G K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Financial education for female foreign domestic workers in Singapore
We evaluate a randomized field experiment to study the effect of financial workshops for domestic workers in Singapore. Groups of women met monthly with a trained mentor. Take-up rates were low and our results are inconclusive as to whether invitations to these workshops improved financial knowledge and behavior. Unexpectedly, treatment assignment had a significant, negative effect on self-reported savings. Further exploration suggests that assig…
Implementation and effects of India's national school-based iron supplementation program
Water Quality Awareness and Breastfeeding
Decades of campaigns have cautioned households in Bangladesh about waterborne contaminants such as arsenic. In addition to switching water sources, mothers can protect young children from contaminated water by breastfeeding longer. We exploit time series variation in whether children were born before or after a nationwide information campaign and geographic variation in exposure to arsenic. We find that mothers breast-feed children longer in resp…
Grain inflation
Grain inflation
Water Quality Awareness and Breastfeeding
Decades of campaigns have cautioned households in Bangladesh about waterborne contaminants such as arsenic. In addition to switching water sources, mothers can protect young children from contaminated water by breastfeeding longer. We exploit time series variation in whether children were born before or after a nationwide information campaign and geographic variation in exposure to arsenic. We find that mothers breast-feed children longer in resp…
Implementation and effects of India's national school-based iron supplementation program
Financial education for female foreign domestic workers in Singapore
We evaluate a randomized field experiment to study the effect of financial workshops for domestic workers in Singapore. Groups of women met monthly with a trained mentor. Take-up rates were low and our results are inconclusive as to whether invitations to these workshops improved financial knowledge and behavior. Unexpectedly, treatment assignment had a significant, negative effect on self-reported savings. Further exploration suggests that assig…
Economics (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (2 works) · Anemia (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Attendance (1 work) · Breast feeding (1 work) · Breastfeeding (1 work)