performance and reduce avoidable absenteeism. It concludes with policy options for developing countries to explore as they work to …

absenteeism in the 30 days preceding the survey as a measure of these shocks they find large impacts: A 5 percent increase in the … achievement likely reflects both the direct effect of increased absenteeism and the indirect effects of less lesson preparation …

resource allocations to schools. The study explores how absenteeism correlates with a wide range of potential determinants of …

: incorporating externality costs and benefits. It reviews estimates of the external costs of power in international studies as well … countries. It also reports some recent work on the external costs associated with transmission. Some comments for the range of … estimates are offered. Section three reviews a few studies on external costs for India and compares those with the international …

This report provides estimates of social and financial costs of environmental damage in India from three pollution …. The estimates are based on a combination of Indian data from secondary sources and on the transfer of unit costs of … environmental economics. Estimates of the costs of degradation are generally reported as a percent of conventional gross domestic …

"The authors study the effect of reorganization costs on the efficiency of bankruptcy laws. They develop a simple model … that predicts that in a regime with high costs, the law fails to achieve the efficient outcome of liquidating unviable … lowering reorganization costs, the reform improved the selection of viable firms into reorganization. In this sense, the new …