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Female labour force participation and child education in India : the effect of the national rural employment guarantee scheme
Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - 2012
We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548202
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Women political leaders, corruption and learning : evidence from a large public program in India
Afridi, Farzana; Iversen, Vegard; Sharan, M. R. - 2013
India. Using primary survey data, we find more program inefficiencies and leakages in village councils reserved for women … reservations ; gender ; NREGA ; India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009715011
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Why are fewer married women joining the work force in India? : a decomposition analysis over two decades
Afridi, Farzana; Dinkelman, Taryn; Mahajan, Kanika - 2016
Unlike the global trend, India has witnessed a secular decline in women's employment rates over the past few decades … affected female labor force participation rates in India. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452233
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The mixture as before? : student responses to the changing content of school meals in India
Afridi, Farzana; Barooah, Bidisha; Somanathan, Rohini - 2016
We study how attendance rates of primary school children respond to cost neutral changes in the design of India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475055
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Time for clean energy? : cleaner fuels and women's time in home production
Afridi, Farzana; Debnath, Sisir; Dinkelman, Taryn; … - 2022
information experiment in rural India. Treatment villages were randomly assigned to receive information about negative health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168146
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Measuring performance: ranking state success over two decades in India
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Chaudhuri, Arka Roy; … - 2021
This paper proposes new composite measures of relative and dynamic state performance to improve governance and delivery of public programs in developing countries with a federal structure. We rank the performance of 19 major Indian states on two large development programs launched by the Indian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583677
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The ties that bind us: social networks and productivity in the factory
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Sharma, Swati - 2020
We use high frequency worker level productivity data from garment manufacturing units in India to study the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293587
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Governance and public service delivery in India
Afridi, Farzana - 2017
Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public service delivery in India. Existing research suggests that the … corruption. There is near consensus, however, that India has had limited success in reducing poverty and enhancing human capital … incentives, transparency and state capacity as the key challenges to reducing the governance deficit in India. IGC supported …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694812
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Using social connections and financial incentives to solve coordination failure : a quasi-field experiment in India's manufacturing sector
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Li, Sherry Xin; … - 2018
Production processes are often organised in teams, yet there is limited evidence on whether and how social connections and financial incentives affect productivity in tasks that require coordination among workers. We simulate assembly line production in a lab-in-the-field experiment in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011859500
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Hunger and performance in the classroom
Afridi, Farzana; Barooah, Bidisha; Somanathan, Rohini - 2019
school hours. We conduct a lab-in-the field experiment, leveraging the extension of India's school meal program from primary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118323