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institutional births and child mortality in the state of Bihar, India. Using the difference-in-differences methodology, we find a …
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-10, we investigate the relationship between social identity, specifically caste identity in India, and perceptions of self …, and how institutional change can influence it. Our main finding is that caste identity in contemporary India does shape …
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field experiment in India that subsidizes the cost of learning spoken English, we find that full subsidy (compared to …
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. Utilizing quasi-experimental variation in legal fertility limits on village council members in India, we find that at least 2 …
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This paper explores the dynamics of income and poverty of rural Indian households, 1994-2005. The estimation strategy consists of convergence analysis to test whether poor households are catching-up in terms of income, followed by transition analysis to test whether poor households are more...
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women residing in low-income households in India. We combine pre-intervention data with two rounds of post-intervention data …
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that short-term migration by males reduces the probability of intergenerational persistence by 20% in rural India …
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analyze the impact of one of the world's largest anti-poverty programs, India's NREGS, on the intensity of Maoist conflict. We …
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A number of developing country governments have introduced ambitious anti-poverty programs in recent years, but the dynamic effects of these initiatives on governments' election performance remain poorly understood. Especially in contexts with low program implementation quality, public support...
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This paper studies child health in India focusing on differences in anthropometric outcomes between the three main … establishing countries were engaged in during India's colonial history. The results are robust to a series of checks for instrument … scientific underpinnings of disease, the advent of Christianity has long-term health implications for India's children today. …
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