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developing economy--India--to investigate the relationship between declines in trade costs, the imports of intermediate inputs …
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We exploit random assignment of gender quotas across Indian village councils to investigate whether having a female chief councillor affects public opinion towards female leaders. Villagers who have never been required to have a female leader prefer male leaders and perceive hypothetical female...
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detailed firm-level data from India, we provide the first evidence on the patterns of multi-product firm production in a large …-section, multi-product firms in India look remarkably similar to their U.S. counterparts, confirming the predictions of recent … churning--particularly product rationalization -- is far less common in India. We thus find little evidence of "creative …
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decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …
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poverty and inequality. This paper uses the sharp trade liberalization in India in 1991, spurred to a large extent by external … factors, to measure the causal impact of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in districts in India. Variation in … pre-liberalization industrial composition across districts in India and the variation in the degree of liberalization …
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We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India … with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not …
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using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference …
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This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk …, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract … points) more likely to choose a worker in India. Yet, the size of the Indian diaspora on oDesk and the timing of its effects …
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the informal sector is moving from rural to urban locations. While the secular trend for India's manufacturing …
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We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We …
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