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Mechanizing Agriculture
Caunedo, Julieta; Kala, Namrata - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Economic activity in developing countries is labor-intensive, low-scale, and family run, with substantial family managerial time spent supervising hired labor. We use a randomized control trial that subsidizes access to rental equipment markets to study the impact of the adoption of mechanized...
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Decoding India's Low Covid-19 Case Fatality rate
Philip, Minu - 2020
India's case fatality rate (CFR) under covid-19 is strikingly low, trending from 3% or more, to a current level of … least partly due to India's younger age distribution. In this paper, we use age-specific fatality rates from 14 comparison … countries, coupled with India's distribution of covid-19 cases to "predict" what India's CFR would be with those age …
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India's Lockdown : An Interim Report
Ray, Debraj - 2020
. But for India, a developing country with great sectoral and occupational vulnerabilities, this dramatic reduction is more …
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The Light and the Heat : Productivity Co-benefits of Energy-saving Technology
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2018
decisions. We study consequences of the adoption of energy-efficient LED lighting in garment factories around Bangalore, India …
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The Skills to Pay the Bills : Returns to On-the-job Soft Skills Training
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2018
garment workers in India. The program increased women's extraversion and communication, and spurred technical skill upgrading …
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Missing Unmarried Women
Anderson, Siwan - 2015
. India has the largest proportion of missing adult women who are without a husband, followed by the countries in East Africa …
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Anatomy of a Contract Change
Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2014
We study a contract change for tea pluckers on an Indian plantation, with a higher government-stipulated baseline wage. Incentive piece rates were lowered or kept unchanged. Yet, in the following month, output increased by 20-80%. This response contradicts the standard model and several...
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Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict : Hindu-Muslim Violence in India
Mitra, Anirban - 2013
on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is that an increase in per-capita Muslim expenditures generates a …. These findings speak to the origins of Hindu-Muslim violence in post-Independence India …
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Economies of Density and Congestion in the Sharing Economy
Caunedo, Julieta; Kala, Namrata; Zhang, Haimeng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
in India. We document large dispersion in rental rates, unused service capacity and delays in service provision. We then …
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Money (Not) to Burn : Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning
Jack, B. Kelsey; Jayachandran, Seema; Kala, Namrata; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Particulate matter significantly reduces life expectancy in India. We use a randomized controlled trial in the Indian … cost-effective way to improve India's air quality …
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