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The effect of early childhood development program attendance on future school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India
Hazarika, Gautam; Viren, Vejoya - 2010
schooling. Analysis of data from the World Bank's 1997-98 Survey of Living Conditions in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar yields the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011584
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Education policies and practices : what have we learnt and the road ahead for Bihar
Ranjan, Priya; Prakash, Nishith - 2012
This paper assesses the status of education, both quantity and quality, in Bihar in both absolute terms and relative to … current policies in the field of education in Bihar. Finally, it makes a case for several policy initiatives that should be … accorded priority by the policymakers in Bihar. -- education ; enrollment ; out-of-school ; Bihar ; India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548073
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Cycling to school : increasing secondary school enrollment for girls in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - 2013
We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793460
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Effect of political decentralization and female leadership on institutional births and child mortality in rural Bihar, India
Kumar, Santosh; Prakash, Nishith - 2017
institutional births and child mortality in the state of Bihar, India. Using the difference-in-differences methodology, we find a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664354
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Skills training and employment outcomes in rural Bihar
Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Bedi, Arjun Singh - 2017
participation in and the impact of one of these programs (DDUJKY) located in rural Bihar, one of India's poorest states. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709385
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Land reforms, status and population growth
Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2014
In this document, we consider the effects of a land reform on economic and demographic growth by a family-optimization model with sharecropping, endogenous fertility and status seeking. We show that tenant farming is the major obstacle to escaping the Malthusian trap with high fertility and low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337427
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Out of communal land: clientelism through delegation of agricultural tenancy contracts
Kurosaki, Takashi; Paul, Saumik; Witoelar, Firman - 2021
Do local institutions influence the nature of political clientelist exchange? We find a positive answer in the context of a village institution prevalent in Java since the Dutch colonial rule, where democratically elected village heads receive usufruct rights over a piece of communal village...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501502
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Access to land and tenancy practices on Tanah Bengkok: evidence from Java, Indonesia
Kurosaki, Takashi; Paul, Saumik; Witoelar, Firman - 2020
Tanah bengkok (bengkok land) in Java, Indonesia boasts a unique institution where elected village leaders receive usufruct rights to a parcel of land owned by the village, in lieu of salary. Despite its relevance to the political economy of land distribution in Java, unavailability of systematic...
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Tenancy by the entirety and the value of wealth insurance for entrepreneurs
Traczynski, Jeffrey - 2020
This paper explores the willingness of entrepreneurs to pay for wealth insurance to protect personal assets in case of business failure and the impact of this strategy on small business operation decisions. I show that antidiscrimination laws allow married firm owners in half of U.S. states to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203405
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Land markets and labor productivity : empirical evidence from China
Zhang, Jian; Mishra, Ashok K.; Zhu, Peixin - 2023
This study investigates the impact of the land rental market (LRM) on labor productivity in rural China. Particular attention is given to farm and non-farm labor productivity. Using 2012 household-level data and a multinomial endogenous switching treatment regression (MESTR) technique, we find...
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