Rate My Professor Madeline McKelway

McKelway's research focuses on development economics, particularly the empowerment and employment of women in India, employing experimental methods such as randomized trials to examine self-efficacy, household communication, labor supply decisions, time use, and mental health among the elderly. Prominent publications include "Women's Self-Efficacy and Economic Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from India" (2025, 165 citations), "Depression and Loneliness among the Elderly in Low- and Middle-Income Countries" (Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2023, 101 citations), "Female Labour Force Participation" (VoxDevLit, 2024, 56 citations), "How Does Women's Employment Affect Their Time Use? Evidence from a Randomized Encouragement Design in India" (2025, 45 citations), "The Power of Persuasion: Causal Effects of Household Communication on Women's Employment" (NBER, 2025), "Effects of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Cash Transfers on Older Persons Living Alone in India: A Randomized Trial" (Annals of Internal Medicine, 2023, 27 citations), "Coupling Labor Supply Decisions: An Experiment in India" (CESifo Working Paper, 2021, 58 citations), and "Women's Employment and Empowerment: Descriptive Evidence" (AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022). Her dissertation, "Essays on the Empowerment and Employment of Women in India" (MIT, 2020), underpins much of her research agenda. McKelway co-edited a literature review on women's labor force participation and featured on the VoxDev podcast discussing cross-country studies on women's employment barriers. She mentors Dartmouth Economic Research Scholars and contributes to postbaccalaureate fellowships in gender, labor, and development economics.