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Stand against bullying : an experimental school intervention
Gutierrez, Italo A.; Molina, Oswaldo; Ñopo, Hugo - 2018
Despite the growing evidence on the negative consequences of school bullying, there is no consensus regarding the most effective strategies to fight this problem. We study the impact of a randomized intervention to reduce school bullying in urban public schools in Peru, a country where violence...
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Caste based discrimination : evidence and policy
Siddique, Zahra (contributor) - 2008
Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760072
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Improving the labor market outcomes of minorities : the role of employment quota
Prakash, Nishith - 2009
exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its … group by education, gender, and geographical location. -- Caste ; employment ; wage differentials ; public sector ; India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003895068
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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
, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less …' grade progression. -- early childhood development ; less developed country ; India ; schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011584
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Female labour force participation and child education in India : the effect of the national rural employment guarantee scheme
Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - 2012
We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548202
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Empowering women through education and influence : an evaluation of the Indian Mahila Samakhya program
Kandpal, Eeshani; Baylis, Kathy; Arends-Kuenning, Mary P. - 2012
This paper shows that participation in a community-level female empowerment program in India significantly increases …-participants relative to women in untreated districts. -- women's empowerment ; community-level interventions ; impact evaluation ; India …
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Guns and butter? : fighting violence with the promise of development
Khanna, Gaurav; Zimmermann, Laura V. - 2015
analyze the impact of one of the world's largest anti-poverty programs, India's NREGS, on the intensity of Maoist conflict. We …
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Welfare implications of India's employment guarantee programme with a wage payment delay
Basu, Parantap; Sen, Kunal - 2015
) of the Government of India. We argue that a chronic friction of wage payment delay in this flagship programme could …
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Cash transfers and child labour
Hoop, Jacobus de; Rosati, Furio Camillo - 2013
Cash transfer programs are widely used in settings where child labour is prevalent. Even if many of these programs are explicitly implemented to improve children's welfare, in theory their impact on child labour is undetermined. This paper systematically reviews the empirical evidence on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771742
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Labor market impacts of a large-scale public works program : evidence from the Indian Employment Guarantee Scheme
Zimmermann, Laura - 2012
Employment Guarantee Scheme ; NREGA ; NREGS ; India ; regression discontinuity design …
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