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-income countries. We conduct a large phone survey and leverage India's geographically-varying containment policies to estimate the …
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The Right to Education Act in 2009 guaranteed access to free primary education for all children in India ages 6 …
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This paper explores the aggregate economic effects from India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS …
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We examine the effect of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), one of the largest workfare … 2.5 million rural children in India, we show that each year of exposure to NREGS decreases school enrollment by 2 …
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-scale randomized field experiments in four countries: India, Indonesia, Mali, and Tanzania. Health promotion works through a number of …
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Higher wages are generally thought to increase human capital production especially in the developing world. We show that human capital investment is procyclical in early life (in utero to age 3), but then becomes countercyclical. We argue this countercyclical effect is caused by families...
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