rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India …. -- India ; social groups ; inequality ; quantile regression decomposition …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …

This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son …

expenditures in India. Contrary to most previous research, I find evidence of discrimination against girls. Results at the all-India … discrimination ; India ; intra-household allocation ; education expenditures …

Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of … sector ; corruption ; state domestic product ; governance ; India …

This paper examines changes in the wage structure in urban India during the past two decades (1983-2004) across the … increasing effects of tertiary education suggests that wage inequality in urban India may increase further in the near future as … more workers get tertiary education. -- Earning functions ; India ; quantile regression decomposition ; wage …

gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the mean, as well as along the entire wage …