India Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and rural areas. In addition to the traditional …. -- gender bias ; educational expenditure ; hurdle model ; school choice ; India …

most striking difference is that, in India, we do not find any significant reactions to asymmetric non-employment shocks at … the response to unemployment shocks in these economies. In India, the unemployment rate does not seem to be a reliable … to regional wage differentials in India at both the state and district level. …

of India and finds that conditional on a range of individual, household, and regional characteristics, adult BMI …-risk populations in developing countries like India. …

, 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. …

role of individual and geographical factors in determining the level and the change in income inequality in India. We find … that between-state income differences account for the majority of between-district income inequality in rural India in 2011 …. However, in urban India within-state income differences explain most of the between- district inequality in 2011. We also find …

Using detailed monthly panel data from rural India, this paper analyzes sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I …

compensation to public work employees consistent with the objectives of (i) productive efficiency in agriculture and (ii) welfare …The recent enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India has been widely hailed a policy that …