a failure to follow the national trend in poverty reduction. Schooling costs appear to play a large role in this … relationship between poverty, schooling, and child labor. Extrapolating from our results, our estimates imply that roughly half of … India''s rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …

poverty and inequality. We find that the epidemic lowers average income and increases poverty, and that the jump in poverty is … larger than expected from the fall in average income. This disproportionate increase in poverty reflects the large share of … the population living on the threshold of poverty and the higher HIV prevalence rates in those segments of the population …

While trade integration has been an engine of global growth and prosperity, as suggested by theory, some sectors have … relative to similar studies. We find that districts competing with liberalized imports experienced significantly lower growth …