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2026-10-27 · Worldbank

Six questions with Seema Jayachandran - World Bank Blogs

Seema Jayachandran is the Kenneth J. Boudreaux '65 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Her research focuses on environmental conservation, gender equality, and other microeconomic topics in developing countries. 1. In your new JEL review with Alessandra Voena, you focus on power between spouses, and flag multigenerational and polygynous households as a promising direction for future research. Have economists made the household too small? In many settings, a woman is bargaining not just with her husband but with parents, parents-in-law, siblings, children, and wider kin. How would taking those actors seriously change either our models of household power or the interventions we design to increase women’s agency?

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