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Women in politics: evidence from the Indian states
Clots-Figueras, Irma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
This paper uses panel data from the 16 main states in India during the period 1967- 1999 to study the effects of having …
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Fertility, education and development: further evidence from India
Dreze, Jean; Murthi, Mamta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
There has been a significant decline in fertility in many parts of India since the early 1980s. This paper reexamines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745825
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School participation in rural India
Dreze, Jean; Gandhi Kingdon, Geeta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
This paper presents an analysis of the determinant of school participation in rural north India, based on a recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745987
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Multidimensional poverty and the state of child health in India
Mohanty, Sanjay K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
Using data from the National Family and Health Survey 3, India, this paper measures and validates the extent of … multidimensional poverty and examines the linkages of poverty level with child health in India. Multidimensional poverty is measured in … the households in India are abject poor; half of them are poor and the poor have limited access to child care. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126689
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Estimating the peace dividend: the impact of violence on house prices in Northern Ireland
Besley, Timothy; Mueller, Hannes - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
This paper exploits data on the pattern of violence across regions and over time to estimate the impact of the peace process in Northern Ireland on house prices. We begin with a linear model that estimates the average treatment effect of a conflictrelated killing on house prices - showing a...
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Trade and growth with heterogeneous firms
Baldwin, Robert; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
This paper explores the impact of trade on growth when firms are heterogeneous. We find that greater openness produces anti-and pro-growth effects. The Melitz-model selection effects raises the expected cost of introducing a new variety and this tends to slow the rate of new-variety introduction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746195
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Collapsing worlds and varieties of welfare capitalism: in search of a new political economy of welfare
Schelkle, Waltraud - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
The study of welfare capitalism is concerned with a founding question of political economy, namely how capitalism and democracy can be combined. Ever since the publication of Esping-Andersen’s Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism in 1990, the answer was sought in identifying ideal types of...
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Protection for sale made easy
Baldwin, Richard E.; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Formal analysis of the political economy of trade policy was substantially redirected by the appearance of Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman’s 1994 paper, “Protection for Sale”. Before that article a fairly wide range of approaches were favoured by various authors on various issues, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071115
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State capacity, conflict and development
Besley, Timothy; Persson, Torsten - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
We report on an on-going project, which asks a number of questions relevant to the study of state capacity. What are the main economic and political determinants of the state’s capacity to raise revenue and support private markets? How do risks of violent conflict affect the incentives to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884656
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Making autocracy work
Besley, Timothy; Kudamatsu, Masayuki - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
One of the key goals of political economy is to understand how institutional arrangements shape policy outcomes. This paper studies a comparatively neglected aspect of this - the forces that shape heterogeneous performance of autocracies. The paper develops a simple theoretical model of...
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