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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 …
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random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …-oriented choices of households. -- Time discounting ; gender ; children ; experiment ; India …
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experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion for villagers in south India to highlight behavioral features of …
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that short-term migration by males reduces the probability of intergenerational persistence by 20% in rural India …
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We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal … household types. -- child labor ; India ; informal lending ; lending discrimination ; interest rate caps …
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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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We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between …
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allocation of funds for India's largest social protection programme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in … the state of West Bengal in India, and whether incumbent local governments (village councils) gain electorally in the …
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Using detailed monthly panel data from rural India, this paper analyzes sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I …
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rural households in India changed over time from 1995 to 2017-18. Our most striking finding is that there has been a change …
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