We study the effect of internet diffusion on childbirth procedures performed in England between 2000 and 2011. We … exploit an identification strategy based on geographical discontinuities in internet access generated by technological factors …. We show that broadband internet access increased Cesarean-sections: mothers living in areas with better internet access …

; incomplete contracts ; evolutionary game theory ; culture ; trade integration ; factor mobility ; globalization …

sample of Indian manufacturing firms. -- globalization ; uncertainty ; training ; labor markets ; India … with globalization may be twin to each other. We provide statistical evidence of this so far neglected trade-off for a …

Since the late 1970s, the price indices underlying the poverty lines in India have been updated using aggregate indices … higher levels of poverty in eastern India, and generally, smaller reductions in poverty from 2005 to 2010. Our poverty …

developing economy, India, with the help of a large dataset. The paper empirically validates status consciousness among the … relatively poor for both rural and urban areas across the states of India. The hypotheses that inequality impacts consumption …

percentage points increase in internet penetration rates. This is a huge increase, meaning that the deployment of these cables … has almost doubled the penetration of Internet in the sub-continent's population. On the other hand, exogenous sources of … internet and mobile penetration rates, to lower investments in ICTs, and to increase mobile-cellular tariffs and the wireline …