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We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We …
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The threat posed by smoking to health in India is severe. Already 1 in 5 of all adult male deaths and 1 in 20 of all … adult female deaths at ages 30-69 are due to smoking and India will soon have 1 million smoking deaths a year. Increasing … smoked tobacco in India, are largely untaxed, while cigarettes are taxed at about 40% of retail price, well below the 65 …
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We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. Among … economies for entry hold when considering changes in India's incumbent industry structures from 1989, determined before large …
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It has been argued that since 2014, under the BJP-led central government, welfare benefits in India have become better …
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Using rural household survey data from West Bengal, we find that voters respond positively to excludable government welfare benefits but not to local public good programs, while reporting having benefited from both. Consistent with these voting patterns, shocks to electoral competition induced...
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scalable intervention in India, that affected developmental outcomes in the short-term, including cognition (0.36 SD p=0 …
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the globe--to evaluate India's varied road construction projects in the early 2000s. Estimating the model requires only … through public sources. We find that India's road investments from this period improved aggregate welfare, particularly for …
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Despite significant economic growth, child development outcomes in India remain poor. Using a large-scale experiment in … explanatory factor for the poor translation of increases in income into child growth in India …
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We study migration in the right tail of the talent distribution using a novel dataset of Indian high school students taking the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE), a college entrance exam used for admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). We find a high incidence of migration...
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job seekers in India applying to guest worker jobs in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Working with construction companies …
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