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Since October 2014, the Government of India has worked towards a goal of eliminating open defecation by 2019 through … the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM). In June 2014, we reported the results of a survey of rural sanitation behaviour in north … India. Here, we report results from a late 2018 survey that revisited households from the 2014 survey in four states: Bihar …
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group of married couples (non-network treatment) in low-income neighborhoods of Delhi, India. In the second treatment arm …
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We consider a model where each individual (or ethnic minority) is embedded in a network of relation-ships and decides whether or not she wants to be assimilated to the majority norm. Each individual wants her behavior to agree with her personal ideal action or norm but also wants her behavior to...
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In India, 52-98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by …
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increase in household income and conservative social norms. Our results suggest that India needs to focus more on creating jobs …
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-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United … improve with own education. Our theoretical predictions match the data for India at low levels of women's education but over …
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This study investigates the sudden disappearance of foot-binding, a costly custom practiced for centuries in China and Taiwan prior to its demise. We estimate the numbers of women who unbound their feet in response to the rapid growth of the sugarcane cultivation in Taiwan in the early 20th...
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partner selection in India. We find that employed women are 14.5% less likely to receive interest from male suitors relative … patriarchy on marital preferences, especially for men hailing from higher castes and northern India, where communities have more …
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We use high frequency worker level productivity data from garment manufacturing units in India to study the effects of …
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context. In an experiment with 3,182 patients at 128 tuberculosis (TB) treatment centers in India, we find peers are indeed …
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