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Lives project conducted in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is found that health shocks to poorer parents reduce investments in …This paper explores the intergenerational effects of parental health shocks using longitudinal data from the Young … children thereby reducing their future earnings, and perpetuating poverty and inequality. The paper discusses important …
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This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among … husbands. In contrast, staying employed during the pandemic is associated with worse mental health for women and their …
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A bill to provide for free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years. …
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This paper investigates if better access to secondary education increases enrolment in primary schools among children …
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Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6-14 years, including children with disabilities. Given that the school … cent increase in schooling among children with disabilities within three years. The estimate is driven by enrolment across …
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proportion of children studying in a school with a principal by 0.1, and increased the number of teachers in a village by 0.7. I …
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Engaging and strengthening the ICDS and Health programs of the government was a major approach of the two component … effectiveness at scale. This paper describes how the INHP learnt and evolved in its strategies in engaging existing public health …
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Using the 2004-05 India Human Development Survey data, we estimate and decompose the earnings of household businesses owned by historically marginalized social groups known as Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SCSTs), and non-SCSTs across the earnings distribution. We find clear differences in...
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This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited …
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The paper is a research which studies the government policies and agendas that affect the poor in India. For the research 8 to 10 families, who had been intervened several years ago were re-interviewed to identify and explore the processes that reinforced or helped them escape the situation of...
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