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-year school-based intervention in Haryana, India, that engaged adolescents in classroom discussions about gender equality. Using a …
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During the global financial crisis, the Reserve Bank of India enacted forbearance measures that lowered capital … assets in India's predominantly state-owned banking system is consistent with accounting subterfuge …
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Using firm-level data this paper analyzes the transformation of India's economic structure following the implementation …
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female child mortality in India, or about 22,000 "missing girls" each year … breastfeeding decisions and test the model's predictions using survey data from India. First, we find that breastfeeding increases …
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We use a new firm-level dataset to examine the efficiency of investment in emerging economies. In the three-year period following stock market liberalizations, the growth rate of the typical firm's capital stock exceeds its pre-liberalization mean by an average of 5.4 percentage points....
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measure agency for 209 women in Haryana, India, first, through a semi-structured interview and, second, through a large set of …
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This paper examines the behavior of quarterly inflation in India since 1994, both headline inflation and core inflation … headline inflation feed into expected inflation and future core inflation. Several aspects of India's inflation process are …
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This paper examines the intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes in India, a setting where discrimination …
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India's child stunting rate is among the highest in the world, exceeding that of many poorer African countries. In this … patterns in the data indicate that India's culture of eldest son preference plays a key role in explaining the steeper birth … if he is the eldest son. Third, the India-Africa height deficit is largest for daughters with no older brothers, which …
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patrilocality and concern for women's "purity" help explain the male-skewed sex ratio in India and China and low female employment … in India, the Middle East, and North Africa, for example. I also discuss why the sex ratio has become more male …
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