decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …

Over the last two decades in India there have been large increases in outsourced jobs and large increases in schooling … panel data on school enrollment from a comprehensive school-level administrative dataset. This is merged with detailed data … on Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) center location and founding dates. Using school fixed effects, we …

prevalence in India prior to a nationwide eradication program in the 1950s. We find that the program led to modest increases in …

attractiveness of migration for educated children. Consistent with the model, in response to the treatment we find declines in school …

may attend less school. Exploiting early life rainfall shocks in India as a source of exogenous variation in early life …

school participation and educational attainment, but also find substantially higher earnings for those (young) adults who …

education and child labor legislation became more stringent and potentially constrained secondary-school aged youths. It might … of the increase in high school enrollments and can account for about the same portion of the increase in the eventual …

for applicants favored by affirmative action indeed show no gains in reading and negative effects of exam school … benefit from affirmative-action, a pattern inconsistent with mismatch. We show that Chicago exam school effects are explained … by the schools attended by applicants who are not offered an exam school seat. Specifically, mismatch arises because exam …