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 …

provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …

effects of the use of networks on wages. Users of networks tend to be older, to have migrated longer ago and to be less … impact of network use on wages. Using job contacts brings open access to urban employment, but at the cost of markedly lower … wages …

parenthood, child labor, and poverty in pushing teenagers out of school is subject to particular attention. The potential …. Extreme poverty is another factor lowering school attendance, as children who have suffered hunger at some point in their …

, we examine the urban-rural welfare gap in India in 1983, 1993-94, 2004-05, and 2011-12 across the entire distribution … India Human Development Surveys …

scores and schooling from rural India, we show that higher wages increase human capital investment in early life (in utero to …Higher wages are generally thought to increase human capital production, particularly in the developing world. We … age 2) but decrease human capital from ages 5-16. Positive rainfall shocks increase wages by 2% and decrease math test …