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Was the mandal commission right? : living standard differences between backward classes and other social groups in India
Gang, Ira N. (contributor); Sen, Kunal (contributor);  … - 2008
Affirmative action has been at the heart of public policies towards the socially disadvantaged in India. Compensatory …
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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012
; household enterprises ; India …
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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 …
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Tertiary education and prosperity : catholic missionaries to luminosity in India
Castelló-Climent, Amparo; Chaudhary, Latika; … - 2015
the forefront of tertiary education in colonial India, but they established many high quality colleges following Indian …
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Welfare implications of India's employment guarantee programme with a wage payment delay
Basu, Parantap; Sen, Kunal - 2015
) of the Government of India. We argue that a chronic friction of wage payment delay in this flagship programme could …
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Income guarantees and borrowing in risky environments : evidence from India's rural employment guarantee scheme
Bell, Clive; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - 2015
This paper investigates the effects of an income guarantee on borrowing to smooth consumption and finance cultivation in a risky setting with marked seasonality. A three-season, infinite-horizon theoretical model is developed and analyzed. The insights yielded by the model are then used to...
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Local funds and political competition : evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India
Gupta, Bhanu; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - 2014
Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India which was introduced by the Indian National Congress (INC). Using longitudinal data … on funds sanctioned and election results from three rounds of elections in Rajasthan, a state in India, we find an …
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Response to "A re-examination of Banerjee and Iyer" by Iversen, Palmer-Jones and Sen
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Lakshmi Iyer - In: The journal of development studies : JDS 49 (2013) 12, pp. 1647-1650
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On the colonial origins of agricultural development in India : a re-examination of Banerjee and Iyer, "History, institutions and economic performance"
Iversen, Vegard; Palmer-Jones, Richard W.; Sen, Kunal - In: The journal of development studies : JDS 49 (2013) 12, pp. 1631-1646
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Is partisan alignment electorally rewarding? : evidence from village council elections in India
Dey, Subhasish; Sen, Kunal - 2016
allocation of funds for India's largest social protection programme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in … the state of West Bengal in India, and whether incumbent local governments (village councils) gain electorally in the …
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