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Moving to Opportunity or Isolation? Network Effects of a Randomized Housing Lottery in Urban India
Barnhardt, Sharon - 2015
A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the opportunity to move into improved housing on the city's periphery. Fourteen years later, relative to lottery losers, winners report improved housing farther from the city center, but no change in family income or human...
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Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence From Public Works in India and Indonesia
Lewis-Faupel, Sean - 2014
this paper we develop a unique micro-dataset on public works procurement from two fast-growing economies, India and … improvements. In India, where we observe an independent measure of construction quality, e-procurement improves the average road …
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Corruption in Developing Countries
Olken, Benjamin A. - 2011
Recent years have seen a remarkable expansion in economists' ability to measure corruption. This, in turn, has led to a new generation of well-identified, microeconomic studies. We review the evidence on corruption in developing countries in light of these recent advances, focusing on three...
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Understanding Rural Households' Time Use in a Developing Setting : Validating a Low-Cost Time Use Module
Field, Erica Marie; Pande, Rohini; Rigol, Natalia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Time use data facilitate deeper understanding of individual labor supply choices, especially for women, who are more likely to engage in unpaid care and home production. However, traditional time use data collection methods are time-consuming, expensive and susceptible to significant attrition....
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On Her Own Account : How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender Norms
Field, Erica M. - 2019
Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and influence gender norms? In collaboration with Indian government partners, we provided rural women with individual bank accounts and randomly varied whether their wages from a public workfare program were directly deposited into...
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Building Social Capital Through MicroFinance
Feigenberg, Benjamin - 2010
A number of development assistance programs promote community interaction as a means of building social capital. Yet, despite strong theoretical underpinnings, the role of repeat interactions in sustaining cooperation has proven difficult to identify empirically. We provide the first...
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Powerful Women : Does Exposure Reduce Bias?
Beaman, Lori A. - 2008
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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Dams
Duflo, Esther - 2005
large dams in India. To account for endogenous placement of dams we use GIS data and the fact that river gradient affects a … estimates suggest that large dam construction in India is a marginally cost-effective investment with significant distributional …
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Household Matters : Revisiting the Returns to Capital among Female Micro-entrepreneurs
Bernhardt, Arielle - 2017
randomized trials in India, Sri Lanka and Ghana, we show that the gender gap in microenterprise performance is not due to a gap …
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Why Are Indian Children So Short?
Jayachandran, Seema - 2015
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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