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Testing the Pareto Efficiency of Household Resource Allocations
Apps, Patricia F. - 2008
In a careful and thorough empirical study, Christopher Udry (1996) shows convincingly that, in a large sample of West African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto inefficiency of a household resource allocation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771691
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Testing the Pareto Efficiency of Household Resource Allocations
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2008
In a careful and thorough empirical study, Christopher Udry (1996) shows convincingly that, in a large sample of West African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto inefficiency of a household resource allocation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406400
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School Feeding and Learning Achievement : Evidence from India's Midday Meal Program
Chakraborty, Tanika - 2016
We study the effect of the world's largest school feeding program on children's learning outcomes. Staggered implementation across different states of a 2001 Indian Supreme Court Directive mandating the introduction of free school lunches in public primary schools generates plausibly exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985389
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Does the Quality of Electricity Matter? Evidence from Rural India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Pelli, Martino; Ural Marchand, … - 2021
This paper estimates the returns to household income due to improved access to electricity in rural India. We examine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315700
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Employee Referral, Social Proximity and Worker Discipline : Theory and Evidence from India
Dhillon, Amrita; Iversen, Vegard; Torsvik, Gaute - 2021
- and unskilled migrants in India. Consistent with the theoretical predictions, we find a high prevalence of workplace …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315747
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Food for Fuel : The Effect of U.S. Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Helene; Ural … - 2021
RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a … losses are greater among urban households. However, more poor people in India live in villages, so rural poverty impacts are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315870
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Does the Quality of Electricity Matter? Evidence from Rural India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Pelli, Martino; Marchand, Beyza Ural - CESifo - 2013
This paper estimates the returns to household income due to improved access to electricity in rural India. We examine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877886
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Trends and Patterns of Growth, Development, Achievements of China and India : A Comparative Analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2016
given to the re-emergence of the Asian giants, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India. Both countries have attained … unprecedented growth and economic development — PRC and India became the second and fourth largest economies of the world … from US$341 in 1990 to US$4,421 in 2010 whereas India posted a four times growth from US$384 in 1990 to US$1,342 in 2010 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995197
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Employee Referral, Social Proximity and Worker Discipline: Theory and Evidence from India
Dhillon, Amrita; Iversen, Vegard; Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2013
- and unskilled migrants in India. Consistent with the theoretical predictions, we find a high prevalence of workplace …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010674452
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Behind the Scenes of the Telecommunications Miracle: An Empirical Analysis of the Indian Market
Biancini, Sara - CESifo - 2010
We analyze the demand and supply characteristics of the Indian telecommunications market, in order to assess the potential effectiveness of universal access policies in developing countries. We provide some empirical evidence on the supply and demand characteristics, using a small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833905