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Entitled to property: inheritance laws, female bargaining power, and child health in India
Hossain, Md Shahadath; Nikolov, Plamen - 2021
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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Looking back on the lessons of "higher education and developing countries: peril and promise" : perspectives on China and India
Bloom, David E.; Altbach, Philip G.; Rosovsky, Henry - 2016
focuses particularly on how two key countries, China and India, have developed in light of the key recommendations in Peril …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571936
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Entitled to property : how breaking the gender barrier improves child health in India
Hossain, Shahadat Md.; Nikolov, Plamen - 2023
Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014286503
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Do family planning programmes help women's employment? : The case of Indian mothers
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia (contributor);  … - 2007
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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Drought of opportunities : contemporaneous and long-term impacts of rainfall shocks on human capital
Shah, Manisha; Steinberg, Bryce Millett - 2015
scores and schooling from rural India, we show that higher wages increase human capital investment in early life (in utero to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375976
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Air pollution and agricultural productivity in a developing country
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2023
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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Food aid and violent conflict : a review of literature
Koppenberg, Maximilian; Mishra, Ashok K.; Hirsch, Stefan - 2023
We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict...
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Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? : experimental evidence from India
Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Arulampalam, Wiji; Imbert, Clément; … - 2021
can improve their placement outcomes. The study setting is the vocational training programme DDU-GKY in India. We find …
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Replacing churches and mason lodges? : tax exemptions and rural development
Behaghel, Luc; Lorenceau, Adrien; Quantin, Simon - 2013
This paper uses regression discontinuity design to provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of a tax credit program targeted at rural areas in France, including corporate and payroll tax exemptions. We find no impact of the program on total employment or the number of businesses, and...
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Non-farm enterprise productivity and spatial autocorrelation in rural Africa : evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria
Owoo, Nkechi S.; Naudé, Wim - 2014
The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially proximate farm and non-farm enterprises. To test for the presence and significance of such spatial autocorrelation we use data from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural...
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