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Does Access to Secondary Education Affect Primary Schooling? Evidence from India

Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - eSocialSciences - 2012

This paper investigates if better access to secondary education increases enrolment in primary schools among children …

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Persistent Inequality: An Explanation Based on Limited Parental Altruism

Das, Mausumi - eSocialSciences - 2008

This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited …

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From Income to Urban Contest in Global Settings: Chronic Poverty in Bangalore

Benjamin, Solomon - eSocialSciences - 2009

The paper is a research which studies the government policies and agendas that affect the poor in India. For the research 8 to 10 families, who had been intervened several years ago were re-interviewed to identify and explore the processes that reinforced or helped them escape the situation of...

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National Programme for the Health Care of the Elderly (NPHCE): An Approach towards Active and Healthy Ageing

Health, Ministry of; Welfare, Family - eSocialSciences - 2011

Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007â€ dealing with provisions for medical care of Senior Citizen. …

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Returns to Education, Child Labor, & Schooling in India

Chamarbagwala, Rubiana - EconWPA - 2004

In an environment where children's time has an economic value and employment opportunities for educated workers are … scarce, parental investments in their children's education may not be driven entirely by poverty and credit constraints. We … offer evidence that children's participation in child labor and schooling responds to economic returns to education in India …

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Neighborhood and Agricultural Clusters across States of India

Chaterjee, Tirtha; Kumar, A. Ganesh - eSocialSciences - 2014

In this study how number and members of income clusters have changed in Indian agriculture over the last four and a … be in the same income cluster. . …

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Revival of Rural PDS: Expansion and Outreach

Rahman, Andaleeb - eSocialSciences - 2014

Using the recent rounds of NSS data, this paper evaluates the performance and outreach of India's public distribution system (PDS) in the rural areas. The results suggest a significant improvement in the performance of PDS in terms of its outreach and offtake. States like Bihar and Jharkhand...

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Climate Variability and Internal Migration: A Test on Indian Inter-State Migration

Dallmann, Ingrid; Millock, Katrin - eSocialSciences - 2013

Migration data is matched from the Indian census with climate data to test the hypothesis of climate variability as a push factor for internal migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to introduce relevant meteorological indicators of climate variability, based on the standardized...

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Definitional and Statistical Issues Relating to Workers in Informal Employment

Bhalla, Sheila - eSocialSciences - 2009

estimating employment and income generated in the informal economy in India. [NCEUS WP NO 3]. …

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A Study on Structure of the Economy of Udalguri Sub-Division, Assam (India)

Daimari, Prasen; Mishra, SK - EconWPA - 2005

In this study we make an attempt to visualize the structure of the economy of Udalguri Subdivision of Assam, India. The structure of an economy comprises the characteristic features of and the interrelationships among its constituent parts and subsystems. These characteristic features and...

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