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random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …
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of the UK. The magnitude is inconsistent with exponential time preference, but compatible with quasi …
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that time limits on receipt of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families have on female-headed family outcomes, including … welfare use, employment and living arrangements. The effects of time limits depend on the stock of remaining months of … eligibility, which in turn depends on the state time limit and on family's welfare use since the policy was implemented. Since the …
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factors governing entry rates, especially in the context of developing countries. Using 3-digit industry level data from India … institutional and legacy factors. We also find evidence to suggest that, in India, entry rates were positively associated with …
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state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …-religion earnings in India during the 1987-99 period, using the 43rd and 55th rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS). Our results …
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study the problem from a new perspective. In our theoretical model we assume that the child's time is an extension of her …/his mother's time, and that she has to decide how to allocate it. We estimate two empirical specifications, both multinomial … states and for urban and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998/9), we select our sample drawing information from the household data set …
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resource management systems at two garment factories manufacturing for export in India. They make the same product for the same …
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This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely … mortality risks of children born at different times to the same mother, conditional upon a number of state-time varying …
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examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15 whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 …
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In the context of strikingly low literacy rates among Indian women and low caste population, the paper explores whether 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...
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