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We analyze the transmission of global financial crisis to business cycles in China and India. The pattern of business …
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-level data from India, we find that an increase in female labor supply due to the tariff reductions was associated with a 7 …
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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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Japan and India signed the much-awaited Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on 16th February 2011. The …, the study evaluates the economy wide impact of the proposed CEPA between India and Japan at 2020. The study has used a … India and Japan in 2020 after tariff reduction compared to Business as Usual (BAU) scenario. A marginal export growth is …
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This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract, implemented at the end of a three-year cycle in which contracts are generally revised, was (a) the joint outcome of negotiations between twenty unions and plantations, (b)...
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Fuels Mandate. This paper examines the distributional effects of the U.S. mandate on India. First, we use a model with … people the most. About 42 million new poor may be created in India alone. Under imperfect pass-through, this number declines …
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outcomes in middle school grades in urban India, using a lottery that provided students with a voucher to cover program costs …
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We use a panel survey of ∼19,000 primary-school-aged children in rural Tamil Nadu to study "learning loss" after COVID-19-induced school closures, and the pace of recovery after schools reopened. Students tested in December 2021 (18 months after school closures) displayed learning deficits of...
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's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers. The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …
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We trace the development of human capital in today's Senegal, Gambia, and Western Mali between 1770 and 1900. European …
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