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Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2013
In this paper, we examine the intergenerational occupational mobility in India among men born during 1945-85. Following …
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The Informal Labour Market in India : Transitory or Permanent Employment for Migrants?
Junankar, P. N. Raja - 2013
This paper studies the characteristics of the workers in the informal economy and whether migrants treat this sector as a temporary location before moving on to the organised or formal sector to improve their life time income and life style. We limit our study to the Indian urban...
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Cycling to School : Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2013
We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to school. Using data from a large representative household...
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The Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in China and India : Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons
Bloom, David E. - 2013
This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the … five main NCDs will total USD 27.8 trillion for China and USD 6.2 trillion for India (in 2010 USD). For both countries, the … that the costs are much larger in China than in India mainly because of China's higher income and older population. Rough …
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Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes : Evidence from India
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2013
This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes …
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Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India
Anukriti, S - 2014
This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of...
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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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What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India?
Klasen, Stephan - 2014
We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between …
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Loan Regulation and Child Labor in Rural India
Dasgupta, Basab - 2014
We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal …
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The Effects of School Libraries on Language Skills : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in India
Borkum, Evan - 2013
We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on students' scores on a language skills test administered after 16 months. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects larger than 0.053 and 0.037 standard deviations,...
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