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supply behavior of boat owners in southern India. …
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The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …
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The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural households. The complex interactions uncovered by the...
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We analyze the changes in earnings of paid workers (wage earners) in rural India from 2004/05 to 2011/12. Real earnings …
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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 …
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This paper examines whether, in India, discriminatory practices by government-employed child caregivers along religious …
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India, one of the world's two population superpowers, is undergoing unprecedented demographic changes. Increasing … context, scope, and magnitude of India's demographic changes. It then details the major challenges these shifts pose in the … presents an overview of India's recent and ongoing initiatives to adapt to population aging and provide support to older adults …
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scores and schooling from rural India, we show that higher wages increase human capital investment in early life (in utero to …
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the forefront of tertiary education in colonial India, but they established many high quality colleges following Indian …
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