' seasonal agricultural workers from the United States, with the stated goal of raising wages and employment for domestic farm ….S. agricultural wages or employment, and find that important mechanisms for this result include both adoption of less labor …

Climate change has increased rainfall uncertainty, leading to greater production risks in agriculture. We examine the … for agricultural households in India over half a decade. Accounting for unobserved heterogeneity in individual responses …

-level data from the Census of Agriculture, we show that the adoption of milking machines triggered a process of structural …

Using detailed monthly panel data from rural India, this paper analyzes sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I … worker human capital across the farm and non-farm sectors and much higher wages in the latter. Second, while these wage gaps … in wages across sectors. Women work fewer hours and are less likely to work outside of their own village in the non …

the long-term economic benefits of India's national program of childhood vaccinations, known as the Universal Immunization … Programme (UIP). We combine individual-level data from the 68th round of the National Sample Survey of India (2011–2012) with …-à-vis non-UIP districts in 1985-1990. We find that exposure to UIP in infancy increases weekly wages by 13.8% (95% CI: 7.6% to …

setting minimum wages at the contract level. Using an instrumental variable strategy and exploiting variations in contract …-level exposure to trade, we find for the 1995-2003 period that, on average, the surge in imports decreased contractual minimum wages … effect contrasts with a nonsignificant effect of trade on total wages, with the latter becoming positive and large only for …

is associated with higher consumption and increases in local farming wages. Our results suggest that a substantial …

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … effects explains why Chinese wages have caught up, especially since the mid-1990s. The price effect is only partly explained … the wage distribution. -- China ; India ; earnings ; returns to education ; quantile regression ; Oaxaca …