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Religion, politician identity and development outcomes : evidence from India

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Cassan, Guilhem; … - 2013

correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation …

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Leader identity and coordination

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer; … - 2018

This paper examines the effectiveness of leaders in addressing coordination failure in societies with ethnic or religious diversity. We experimentally vary leader identity in a coordination game and implement it in the field across 44 towns in India. We find that religious minority leaders...

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Religion and abortion : the role of politician identity

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - 2018

Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India, we find lower rates of female foeticide in districts with Muslim legislators, which we argue reflects a greater (religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts...

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Women legislators and economic performance

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Min, Brian; … - 2018

There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there is no evidence of how this influences economic performance. We investigate this using data on competitive elections to India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to...

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The puzzle of Muslim advantage in child survival in India

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Valente, Christine; Soest, Arthur van - 2009

documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … literature on the role of religion or culture as encapsulating important unobservable behaviours or endowments that influence … health, indeed, enough to reverse the SES gradient that is commonly observed. -- Religion ; caste ; gender ; child survival …

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Parity reversion in real exchange rates : fast, slow, or not at all?

Cashin, Paul A.; McDermott, John - In: IMF staff papers 53 (2006) 1, pp. 89-119

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Thresholds in the process of international financial integration

Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Taylor, Ashley D. - 2009

, however, is that there seem to be certain "threshold" levels of financial and institutional development that an economy needs …

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How does financial globalization affect risk sharing? : Patterns and channels

Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor); Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2007

In theory, one of the main benefits of financial globalization is that it should allow for more efficient international risk sharing. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive empirical evaluation of the patterns of risk sharing among different groups of countries and examine how international...

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A new database of financial reforms

Abiad, Abdul; Detragiache, Enrica; Tressel, Thierry - In: IMF staff papers 57 (2010) 2, pp. 281-302

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Special issue : frontiers of research on financial globalization

Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor) - 2009

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