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In this paper, we report returns to education in India using unit level data from the nationwide Periodic Labour Force … education qualifications, while the demand for skills remains quite stable. Overall, our policy suggestion is that in India, as …
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to households with no widows in India. However, selection into widowhood appears to be plausibly random and economic …
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using data from India. We argue that an area characterized by coreperiphery economic structure creates regional inequality … responses to contain Covid-19 contagion needs to be heterogeneous across India where the priority areas can be chosen ex …
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Worldwide, 1.6 million girls are "missing" at birth every year. One policy tool to improve the sex ratio is a conditional cash transfer that pays parents to invest in daughters, but existing evidence on their effectiveness is sparse. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we evaluate the...
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We study the role of formal institutions of contract enforcement in facilitating investments in small and medium firms(MSME). In a framework where established entrepreneurs can enforce contracts informally using their network ties and hierarchical advantage, we argue that an efficient formal...
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that of her husband's - causally affects domestic violence using microdata from India. Identifying the causal effect of …
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data free of coresidency bias, we provide evidence on three large developing countries (China, India, and Indonesia) that …. The estimates of risk adjusted relative and absolute mobility for China, India and Indonesia suggest that the standard …
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most striking difference is that, in India, we do not find any significant reactions to asymmetric non-employment shocks at … the response to unemployment shocks in these economies. In India, the unemployment rate does not seem to be a reliable … response to regional wage differentials in India at both the state and district level. …
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Local politicians can function as crucial intermediaries between voters and party bosses in a clientelistic network. We study their role by matching data on 300 million welfare payments in the Indian state of West Bengal to village-level election returns. Local politicians systematically...
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a household survey in India. Our method identifies enumerators exhibiting deviant field practices, and provides them …
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