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We ask whether epidemic exposure leads to a shift in financial technology usage and who participates in this shift. We exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for some 250,000 individuals in 140 countries, merging them with information on the incidence of...
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Who uses mobile money? What is mobile money used for? This paper describes the mobile money adoption patterns following the experimental introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural areas of Southern Mozambique. We use a combination of administrative and household survey data to...
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-development spending ; India …
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Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …
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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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resource management systems at two garment factories manufacturing for export in India. They make the same product for the same … management ; labor productivity ; labor standards ; India ; garments …
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This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … the wage distribution. -- China ; India ; earnings ; returns to education ; quantile regression ; Oaxaca …
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however all likely to improve female schooling. We offer evidence from India consistent with our theoretical analysis …
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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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extent of state dependence in India, distinguishing this from family-level risk factors common to siblings. It offers a … ; multi-level model ; India …
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