counter-lobbying from downstream users on endogenous protection. Applied to India, it yields results that are qualitatively …This Paper proposes a new method to test the Grossman-Helpman model of endogenous protection and lobby formation. This … trade protection purposes and calculates equilibrium contributions directly from the model using structural parameter …

-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on education outcomes at different points in time, namely in 1917 and in the … 1950s. Finally, we turn to the determinants of a broad array of development indicators for the year 1960 and for the 1960 …-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …

initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …

private and public resources spent on foreign education, there is no systematic evidence that foreign educated individuals … indeed foreign-educated individuals promote democracy in their home country, but only if the foreign education is acquired in …

achievements are wasted as children fail to build upon their parents’ achievements. Policies affecting the education system and the … growth potential. In the model, at a good equilibrium a large number of children of well-educated parents take advantage of … returns to human capital can be decisive in determining the outcome. The model provides a basis for distinguishing development …

can reduce teacher absence and increase learning. In 57 schools in India, randomly chosen out of 113, a teacher’s daily …

teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal one-teacher schools in rural India, randomly chosen out of 120 (the … tamper-proof date and time function, along with instructions to have one of the children photograph the teacher and other … schools and children were 40% more likely to be admitted into regular schools. …

correlation rather than some causal mechanism. A similar argument can be made for the effect of education - if parental education … estimates of the effect of parental education will be biased upwards. Moreover, it is very common for parental income data to be …

breastfeeding decisions and test the model's predictions using survey data from India. First, we find that breastfeeding increases … suggest that the gender gap in breastfeeding explains 14 percent of excess female child mortality in India, or about 22 …