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to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of …
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focuses particularly on how two key countries, China and India, have developed in light of the key recommendations in Peril …
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Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings …
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available on overall moves (1981-1995) and asylum migration (1984-1995). The estimation results confirm the importance of the …
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labour market. A unique, rich and representative data survey for all Indian states and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998-1999) allows … married women aged 15 to 49. Our results for urban and rural India show that the FP effect is significant in rural India, that … India, we compare this effect with that one of Governmental Policies (GP) supporting household income and promoting …
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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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I document negative externalities of air pollution in the Indian agricultural sector. Using variation in pollution induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity, with large changes in productivity being common. The...
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conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the … variables estimation, they have not succeeded in i) using instruments that pass the necessary tests of instrumental variable … estimation and ii) identifying the channels through which food aid influences conflict. We argue that future work should contain …
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The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically. -- Aid ;...
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Recent theoretical studies suggest that migration prospects can raise the expected return to human capital and thus foster education investment at home or, in other words, induce a brain gain. In a recent paper (Beine, Docquier and Rapoport, Economic Journal, 2008) we used the Docquier and...
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