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exposed prenatally to TRI pollution have lower wages, are more likely to be in poverty as adults, have fewer years of … births where one or more child was exposed to TRI pollution during gestation and other siblings were not exposed because the …
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pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic status of children and women in India. We show that among very … among adult women. Impacts on anemic status are driven by the growth of PM2.5 pollution attributable to emissions from coal … increasing demand for energy that emerging market economies like India face …
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health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state …
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poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal … accounts of scheduled commercial banks and the changes in below poverty line population. The result suggests that the growth in … bank accounts is not significantly associated with the reduction in below poverty line population across states. Providing …
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, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these trends is a process of mobility, with 40–60 percent of the … poverty remain vulnerable. Most of those who are poor were also poor in the preceding period and, thus, are likely to be …
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India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and … decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India … a failure to follow the national trend in poverty reduction. Schooling costs appear to play a large role in this …
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are greater among urban households. However, more poor people in India live in villages, so rural poverty impacts are … RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a …
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This paper investigates whether aspirations matter for education, which offers a common route out of poverty. We find …
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India, including 53,030 mothers and 113,708 children, collected in 2015-16.Outcomes are measured as multidimensional …
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This paper explores the dynamics of income and poverty of rural Indian households, 1994-2005. The estimation strategy … analysis to test whether poor households are more likely to exit poverty than to remain poor. The identification strategy … explicitly addresses issues pertaining to the potential endogeneity and measurement error of initial income and poverty. We find …
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