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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289893
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376265
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621604
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Local funds and political competition : evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India
Gupta, Bhanu; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - 2014
Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India which was introduced by the Indian National Congress (INC). Using longitudinal data … on funds sanctioned and election results from three rounds of elections in Rajasthan, a state in India, we find an …
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Lockdown and rural joblessness in India : gender inequality in employment?
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal - 2022
India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191278
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Financial markets, banks' cost of funding, and firms' decisions : lessons from two crises
Balduzzi, Pierluigi; Brancati, Emanuele; Schiantarelli, … - 2013
We test whether financial fluctuations affect firms' decisions, through their impact on banks' cost of funding. We exploit two shocks to Italian bank CDS spreads and equity valuations: the 2007-2009 financial crisis and the 2010-2012 sovereign debt crisis. Using newly available data linking over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229932
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Can crises affect citizen activism? : evidence from a pandemic
Afridi, Farzana; Basistha, Ahana; Dhillon, Amrita; … - 2024
We consider the largely unexpected shock caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India to assess whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014507577
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Cream-skimmer or underdog? : labor type selectivity, pre-program wage, and rural labor training program outcome
Chen, Yiu Por - 2009
The mismatch between laborer's abilities and the target subject of the training program is one of the most primary concerns for a labor training program. The ability of different workers may significantly affect the outcomes of a labor training program. The objective of this paper is to look at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808498
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Incentives for teacher relocation : evidence from the Gambian hardship allowance
Pugatch, Todd; Schroeder, Elizabeth - 2013
We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on the distribution and characteristics of teachers across schools. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation and the presence of...
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