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The colonial legacy in India : how persistent are the effects of historical institutions?
Lakshmi Iyer; Weir, Coleson - 2024
Using updated data, we analyze the long-run effects of two British colonial institutions established in India. Iyer …
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Land rights insecurity and temporary migration in rural China
Rupelle, Maëlys de la; Deng, Quheng; Li, Shi; … - 2009
Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking characteristic is a high geographical and temporal mobility. Rural migrants keep going back and forth between origin villages and destination areas. In this paper, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932224
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Village political economy, land tenure insecurity, and the rural to urban migration decision : evidence from China
Giles, John; Mu, Ren - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A simple model first frames the relationship among these variables and the probability that a reallocation of land will occur in the following year. After first demonstrating that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434464
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(De facto) historical ethnic borders and land tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023
We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...
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Geography vs. institutions at the village level
Grimm, Michael (contributor); Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2008
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...
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Can crop purchase programs reduce poverty and improve welfare in rural communities? : evidence from the food reserve agency in Zambia
Fung, Winnie; Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda; Mason, Nicole - 2015
The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the welfare effects of these programs. This article considers one such...
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The elite and the marginalised : an analysis of public spending on mass education in the Indian States
Pal, Sarmistha (contributor); Ghosh, Sugata (contributor) - 2008
-development spending ; India …
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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 …
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Union membership effect on wage premiums : evidence from organized manufacturing industries in India
Bhandari, Amit Kumar (contributor) - 2008
organised manufacturing industries in India. The study uses a recent survey data on labour market in the organised manufacturing … benefits in the organized manufacturing industries in India. -- Trade unions ; wage differentials ; manufacturing …
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Child work and schooling costs in rural Northern India
Hazarika, Gautam (contributor);  … - 2006
children's propensities to work and to attend school in rural northern India in a bid to assess the extent of trade-off between … activities. Thus, unlike recent studies of child work in India's South Asian neighbors of Bangladesh and Pakistan, this paper … uncovers evidence of substantial trade-off between child work and school attendance. -- child labor ; schooling costs ; India …
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