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On the Welfare Gains from Tradeable Benefits-in-Kind
Ravallion, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
assignments, and simulates the market using an unusual survey of workers on a rural public-works scheme in a poor state of India …
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Is a Decentralized Right-to-Work Policy Feasible?
Ravallion, Martin - 2019
Evidence on the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act suggests that the available work is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479639
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Testing Limits to Policy Reversal : Evidence from Indian Privatizations
Dastidar, Siddhartha G. - 2007
We examine the effect of regime change on privatization using the 2004 election surprise in India. The pro-reform BJP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465222
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Growth, Urbanization and Poverty Reduction in India
Datt, Gaurav - 2016
India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …
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Social Frictions to Knowledge Diffusion : Evidence from an Information Intervention
Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2016
knowledge gain from watching an information movie in rural India, while randomized village assignment identifies knowledge …
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Inconsistent Policy Evaluation : A Case Study for a Large Workfare Program
Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2015
. A case study for India's massive National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme indicates lower impacts on poverty than …
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Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes
Fisman, Raymond - 2012
religion and caste of bank officers and borrowers from a bank in India, and a rotation policy that induces exogenous matching …
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Private Returns to Public Office
Fisman, Raymond - 2012
We study the wealth accumulation of Indian parliamentarians using public disclosures required of all candidates since 2003. Annual asset growth of winners is on average 3 to 6 percentage points higher than runners-up. By performing a within-constituency comparison where both runner-up and winner...
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Dirty Air and Green Investments : The Impact of Pollution Information on Portfolio Allocations
Fisman, Raymond; Ghosh, Pulak; Sarkar, Arkodipta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
monitoring stations in India. Using a triple-differences framework, we show that retail investors' investments in "brown" stocks …
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Ethnic Inequality and Poverty in Malaysia Since 1969
Ravallion, Martin - 2019
Ethnic riots broke out in Malaysia in 1969, prompting a national effort at affirmative action favoring the poorer … (majority) of "Bumiputera" (mainly Malays). Since then, Malaysia's official poverty measures indicate one of the fastest long …
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