Using a nationally representative household survey from India, we examine individuals' domestic tourism participation …

provides cashless health services to poor households in India. We evaluate the impact of RSBY on RSBY beneficiary households … households in rural India but not in urban India. However, there is no evidence that the RSBY reduced per person OOP expenditure …

Although, the male labor force participation rate is comparable in China and India, female labor force participation … rate remains very low in India. In this paper, we examine the factors responsible for the difference in female labor force …

We use two waves of nationally representative India Human Development Survey to examine factors driving the cooking … fuel choice in urban and rural India, separately. We utilize a random effects multinomial logit model that controls for …

We examine educational transmission between fathers (mothers) and daughters in India for daughters born during 1962 …') educational distribution. We also find that "Equality of Opportunity" remains an elusive goal for India. Not only the probability …

, we examine the urban-rural welfare gap in India in 1983, 1993-94, 2004-05, and 2011-12 across the entire distribution … India Human Development Surveys. …

Using administrative data from linked private schools from one of districts in India that matches 8,319 pupils to their …

This paper examines changes in the wage structure in urban India during the past two decades (1983-2004) across the … increasing effects of tertiary education suggests that wage inequality in urban India may increase further in the near future as … more workers get tertiary education. -- Earning functions ; India ; quantile regression decomposition ; wage …

The tertiary-secondary (college-high school) wage premium has been increasing in India over the past decade, but the … in India. The findings of this paper are that the increase in the wage premium has come mostly from demand shifts in … supply shift was weak. -- India ; wage premium ; tertiary (college) ; secondary (high school) …

India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set – the India Human Development Survey, 2005 – to …