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Labour Market in Urban Agglomerations: A case from an Indian Global City
Paul, G.D Bino; M, Krishna Krishna - eSocialSciences - 2011
The study explores different aspects of employment and labour market prevalent in large in UAs, in particular global cities. To capture the role of labour market in urban agglomeration, particularly pooling of labour and concentration of economic activities, the paper present a case study of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319328
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Secondary Education in India: Determinants of Development and Performance
P, Geetha Rani - eSocialSciences - 2007
A review of development of school education in India reflects an expansionary phase of number of institutions and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170139
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The Economic Impact of Forest Hydrological Services on Local Communities: A Case Study from the Western Ghats of India
Menon, Ajit; LELE, SHARACHCHANDRA; Patil, Ishwar; … - eSocialSciences - 2009
Building upon a larger research project at four sites in the Western Ghats of peninsular India, this study examines the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696001
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Community Management is Good for Forests: Results from a Field Experiment in India
eSocialSciences; South Asian Network for Development SANDEE - 2011
The study looks at the relationship between indigenous people and their forest homes using a novel field field experiments approach. [Policy Brief No. 48-10]. URL:[http://www.sandeeonline.org/uploads/documents/publication/906_PUB_Policy_Brief_48_Rucha.pdf].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002307
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Using Family Histories to Understand the Intergenerational Transmission of Chronic Poverty
Miller, Robert - eSocialSciences - 2007
A method of collecting family histories that would act as a means of linking households from the panel studies with individual life histories is proposed. The procedure used to construct a three-generation ‘social genealogical’ chart of the family and a strategy for interviewing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699094
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Propensity Score Matching Method in Quasi-Experimental Designs: An Approach to Program Evaluation of INHP-III
Gakhar, Kaushal Deep; Kapur, Vidhu; Kaur, Navneet - eSocialSciences - 2010
as use of experimental design entails creation of treatment and comparison group thereby providing benefits to some and … in construction of both treatment and comparison at baseline. This makes attribution of observed outcomes and impacts to … such alternative for addressing the concerns comparison and attribution. This paper is based on the case of Endline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466284
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Measures, Spatial Profile and Determinants of Dietary Diversity: Evidence from India
Das, Mousumi - eSocialSciences - 2014
dataset from India, analyzes the determinants of dietary diversity, which is measured using the Entropy Index. Heterogeneous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969041
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Neighborhood and Agricultural Clusters across States of India
Chaterjee, Tirtha; Kumar, A. Ganesh - eSocialSciences - 2014
In this study how number and members of income clusters have changed in Indian agriculture over the last four and a half decades are traced. Two features which stand out in our results are that not all geographical neighbours belong to the same cluster and clusters include both geographical...
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Dishonesty and Selection into Public Service
Hanna, Rema; Wang, Shing-Yi - eSocialSciences - 2013
In this paper, it is demonstrated that university students who cheat on a simple task in a laboratory setting are more likely to state a preference for entering public service. Importantly, it is also shown that cheating on this task is predictive of corrupt behavior by real government workers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945205
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Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India
Maitra, Pushkar; Mani, Subha - eSocialSciences - 2013
This paper estimates the short-and-medium-run effects of participating in a sub- sidized vocational training program aimed at improving labor market outcomes of women residing in low-income households in a developing country. [IGC working paper].
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