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Do Business Groups Help or Hinder Technological Progress in Emerging Markets? Evidence from India
Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2014
Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...
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The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2009
The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, it has been argued, have poorer access to public goods. They nevertheless exhibit substantially...
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Occupational Dualism and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in the Rural Economy : Evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe - 2020
farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a … India faced lower educational mobility compared with the sons in rural China in the 1970s to 1990s. To understand the role … solely to genetic correlations in China, but not in India. Father's nonfarm occupation was complementary to his education in …
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Accounting for Differences in Female Labor Force Participation between China and India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2019
Although, the male labor force participation rate is comparable in China and India, female labor force participation …
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International experience with fuel ethanol : lessons for India
Agrawal, Pradeep; Yadav, Inder Sekhar - In: The Indian economic journal 58 (2010) 3, pp. 31-49
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Informal Sector and Corruption : An Empirical Investigation for India
Dutta, Nabamita - 2011
India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and corruption at every stage of economic activities is one of the main reasons behind high...
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Public and Private Sector Jobs, Unreported Income and Consumption Gap in India : Evidence from Micro-Data
Kar, Saibal - 2012
This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate empirically the wage gap as well as consumption expenditure parity between public and private sector workers. It tests the hypothesis that despite a lower level of public sector...
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Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls' Well-Being : Evidence from India
Hu, Luojia - 2011
In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We further examine various channels through which...
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The Effect of Early Childhood Developmental Program Attendance on Future School Enrollment and Grade Progression in Rural North India
Hazarika, Gautam - 2010
This paper examines the effect of prior participation in early childhood developmental programs, considered endogenous, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less developed countries recent influential research on the...
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Remember When it Rained : The Elusiveness of Gender Discrimination in Indian School Enrollment
Zimmermann, Laura - 2012
Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender-differential treatment is the main explanation, but empirical support is often weak. I analyze school enrollment using rainfall shocks, a plausibly exogenous source of income...
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