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using nationally representative data on high school subject choices and adult outcomes for urban males in India. Results …
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"Guest workers" earn higher wages overseas on temporary low-skill employment visas. This wage effect can quantify global inefficiencies in the pure spatial allocation of labor between poorer and richer countries. But rigorous estimates are rare, complicated by migrant self-selection. This paper...
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RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a … are greater among urban households. However, more poor people in India live in villages, so rural poverty impacts are …
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in India. We find that religious minority leaders (Muslims) improve coordination, while majority leaders (Hindus) do not …
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success of banking reforms in India where significant banking reforms have been introduced since 1990s. Using the argument …
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allocation of funds for India's largest social protection programme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in … the state of West Bengal in India, and whether incumbent local governments (village councils) gain electorally in the …
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Primary education in India is a development question of a unique magnitude, and the delivery of education by Indian …
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Using administrative data from linked private schools from one of districts in India that matches 8,319 pupils to their …
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Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
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We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third player whose interests are aligned with those of the sender. We find that lying behavior is not sensitive to revealing the sender's identity to the observer. The option for...
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