household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of household energy consumption with …

This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behavior through the household life … electricity consumption follows an inverted U-shaped distribution as a function of the age of the household's head. Most notably … outcome has important implications for policy-making. Any public policy aimed at reducing household energy consumption should …

This paper revisits the issue of the intra-household allocation of education expenditure with the recently available … India Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and rural areas. In addition to the traditional …) and the decision of how much to spend on education, conditional on enrolling. Finally the paper also uses household fixed …

We use two waves of nationally representative India Human Development Survey to examine factors driving the cooking … fuel choice in urban and rural India, separately. We utilize a random effects multinomial logit model that controls for … unobserved household heterogeneity. We find that a clean-break with the use of traditional fuels is less likely in rural areas …

bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn … household savings, which are primarily financed through increased paternal labor supply. This is the first paper that highlights …

households characteristics. We find lower conditional gaps in both upward/downward mobility in rural India for the disadvantaged …

Inter- and intra-state disparities in levels of literacy rates in India are striking, especially for the marginalized … elite dominance that discriminates against the minority groups of people and systematically under-invests in mass education …. We experiment with various indirect economic and political measures of elite dominance. Results based on the Indian state …

and how far the interests of the marginalized poor are undermined by the dominant elite consisting mainly of the landed … and the capitalists. We distinguish the dominant elite from the minority elite (i.e., elected women and low caste … education while presence of capitalist elite, as reflected in greater degree of industrialisation enhances it, even in poorer …