development level rises. For instance, the negative effects of the refugee shock on employment and labor force participation of … refugees on employment of men is negative for the least developed regions, it is positive for highly developed regions. Our …

. Despite the massive size of the migrant influx, no adverse effects on the average wages of men or women or on total employment … of men are observed. For women, however, total employment falls - which results mainly from the elimination of part … effects on complementary workers in the formal sector. We estimate about one-to-one replacement in employment for native men …

This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes …

regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman … margin in India where a substantial number of incumbents do not contest re-election. There is no significant entry of new …

franchise in 20th-century India. Creating a new dataset of district level political outcomes between 1921 and 1957, we find that …

in India. We find that religious minority leaders (Muslims) improve coordination, while majority leaders (Hindus) do not …

Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India …

Using updated data, we analyze the long-run effects of two British colonial institutions established in India. Iyer …

governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that …