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Do Criminal Representatives Hinder or Improve Constituency Outcomes? Evidence from India

Prakash, Nishith; Rockmore, Marc - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2014

in India. Despite the potentially important consequences and the widely divergent views, the implications of their …

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Does Political Reservation for Minorities Affect Child Labor? Evidence from India

Kaletski, Elizabeth; Prakash, Nishith - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2014

Scheduled Tribes-on child labor in India. We estimate the effect of political reservation on child labor by exploiting the state … India. Using data from state and household level surveys on fifteen major Indian states, we find that at the household level …

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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India

Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2013

We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to school. Using data from a large representative household...

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Does Political Reservation for Minorities Affect Child Labor? Evidence from India

Kaletski, Elizabeth; Prakash, Nishith - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2014

, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority representation on the frequency of visits to … legislative assemblies mandated by the Constitution of India. Using data from state and village level surveys on fifteen major …

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