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Household Savings and Marriage Payments : Evidence from Dowry in India
Anukriti, S - 2018
bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn …
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Gender Norms and the Motherhood Penalty : Experimental Evidence from India
Bedi, Arjun S. - 2018
This paper uses a field experiment to study the effect of perceived gender norms on the motherhood penalty in the Indian labor market. We randomly reported motherhood on fictitious CVs sent to service sector job openings. We generated exogenous variation in gender norms by prominently signaling...
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Measuring Customer Discrimination : Evidence from the Professional Cricket League in India
Sur, Pramod Kumar - 2018
. This paper examines customer discrimination considering a unique dataset from the most popular sports industry in India, i …
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Political Activism as a Determinant of Clientelistic Transfers : Evidence from an Indian Public Works Program
Chau, Nancy H. - 2018
ante political affiliation and jobs received subsequent to large-scale decentralized workfare program in India, we find …
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Women's Inheritance Rights Reform and the Preference for Sons in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2018
India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3 …
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India's Calorie Consumption Puzzle : Insights from the Stochastic Cost Frontier Analysis of Calorie Purchases
Hazarika, Gautam - 2020
, perplexing in the face of rising per capita income when malnutrition is rampant, has been termed India's Calorie Consumption … India's National Sample Survey reveals that Indian households' purchase of calories did become more cost-efficient at every … of the Calorie Consumption Puzzle. Besides thus investigating India's Calorie Consumption Puzzle, this study demonstrates …
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Aggregate Effects from Public Works : Evidence from India
Cook, C. Justin - 2020
This paper explores the aggregate economic effects from India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS …
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Aspirations, Poverty and Education : Evidence from India
Serneels, Pieter M. - 2020
This paper investigates whether aspirations matter for education, which offers a common route out of poverty. We find that mother aspirations are strongly related to the child's grade achieved at age 18. The relation is nonlinear, suggesting there is a threshold, and depends on caste, household...
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Smallholders, Market Failures, and Agricultural Production : Evidence from India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020
Market completeness has important implications for household behavior. I firmly reject complete markets for smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders reallocate labor across activities less in response to...
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Informational Shocks and Street-Food Safety : A Field Study in Urban India
Daniele, Gianmarco - 2020
a training. Among randomly assigned groups of street-food vendors in Kolkata, India, we find large improvements in …
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