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We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …
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(NREGA), enacted in August 2005, is one such program in India. This paper assesses causal impacts (Intent-to-Treat) of NREGA …
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middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …
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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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India has the world's biggest and arguably most aggressive employment-based affirmative action policy for minorities …
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longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there is substantial intra-household gender disparity in the choice of …
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India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …
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vocational trainees on their employment outcomes. The setting of the study is the vocational training program DDU-GKY in India …
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In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …
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