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Marry for What: Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India

Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

frictionless marriage market. One of our key empirical findings is that there is a very strong preference for within-caste marriage … persistent feature of the Indian marriage market. …

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Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India

Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

frictionless marriage market. One of our key empirical findings is that there is a very strong preference for within-caste marriage … persistent feature of the Indian marriage market. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991545

Intergenerational Impacts of Secondary Education : Experimental Evidence from Ghana

Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Spelke, Elizabeth S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

for secondary school delays childbearing and marriage, and reduces unwanted pregnancies. Female scholarship recipients are … more likely to marry a partner with tertiary education and their children have better early childhood development outcomes ….25 standard deviations of test scores once children are of school age. The primary mechanism seems to be that more …

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Birth order matters : the effect of family size and birth order on educational attainment

Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 2006

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Gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills among adolescents in India

Hervé, Justine; Mani, Subha; Behrman, Jere R.; Nandi, … - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 193 (2022), pp. 66-97

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The effect of natural disaster on fertility, birth spacing, and child sex ratio : evidence from a major earthquake in India

Nandi, Arindam; Mazumdar, Sumit; Behrman, Jere R. - In: Journal of population economics 31 (2018) 1, pp. 267-293

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Conditional cash transfers for primary education : which children are left out?

Bauchet, Jonathan; Undurraga, Eduardo A.; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 105 (2018), pp. 1-12

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Putting a Band-Aid on a Corpse: Incentives for Nurses in the Indian Public Health Care System

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther; Glennerster, Rachel - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 6 (2008) 2-3, pp. 487-500

The public Indian health care system is plagued by high staff absence, low effort by providers, and limited use by potential beneficiaries who prefer private alternatives. This artice reports the results of an experiment carried out with a district administration and a nongovernmental...

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Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco

Devoto, Florencia; Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

integration and reduce conflict. Overall, within 6 months, self-reported well-being improved substantially among households in the …

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Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network

Duflo, Esther; Jackson, Matthew O.; Banerjee, Abhijit; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Can we identify the members of a community who are best- placed to diffuse information simply by asking a random sample of individuals? We show that boundedly-rational individuals can, simply by tracking sources of gossip, identify those who are most central in a network according to "diffusion...

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