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Migration and Climate Change in Rural Africa
Cattaneo, Cristina - 2015
We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it will also be an adaptation to future climate change....
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Loan Regulation and Child Labor in Rural India
Dasgupta, Basab - 2014
We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal …
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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 …
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Population Density, Optimal Infrastructure and Economic Growth
Deole, Sumit S. - 2015
data for years 1961-2012 on India, the study examines the role of dense population and transportation infrastructure on …
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Private Capital, Public Goods : Forest Plantations' Investment in Local Infrastructure and Social Services in Rural Tanzania
Degnet, Mohammed B. - 2017
With the rapid expansion of private forest plantations worldwide, their impacts on local development are under scrutiny by NGOs and researchers alike. This study investigates the impacts of private forest plantations on local infrastructure and social services in rural Tanzania. We take a...
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Does State Aid for Broadband Deployment in Rural Areas Close the Digital and Economic Divide?
Briglauer, Wolfgang - 2018
We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German state of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using matched difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have – depending on...
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Effects of Prenatal and Early Life Malnutrition : Evidence from the Greek Famine
Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - 2021
This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...
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The Rapidly Deepening India-China Economic Relationship
Whalley, John - 2010
In this paper we focus on the rapidly deepening bilateral India-China economic relationship. Each is deeply integrating … into the global economy through trade and FDI inflows, China is seen as primarily manufacturing-lead growth with India as … service-lead growth (see Rodrick & Subramanian (2006)). An alternative view is that India is effectively a lagged version of …
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The Twin Effects of Globalization - Evidence from a Sample of Indian Manufacturing Firms
Daveri, Francesco - 2010
Employees of globalized firms face a riskier menu of labor market outcomes. They face a more uncertain stream of earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills and/or may benefit from more rapid careers. Hence, the...
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The Impact of School Lunches on Primary School Enrollment : Evidence from India's Midday Meal Scheme
Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2011
effects of India's midday meal scheme, which offers warm lunches, free of cost, to 120 million primary school children across … India and is the largest school feeding program in the world. To isolate the causal effect of the policy, we make use of …
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