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Improving the labor market outcomes of minorities: the role of employment quota

Prakash, Nishith - 2009

exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its …

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The effect of early childhood development program attendance on future school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India

Hazarika, Gautam; Viren, Vejoya - 2010

, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less …

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Is caste destiny? Occupational diversification among dalits in rural India

Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-su - 2012

The caste system - a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy - distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …

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Empowering women through education and influence: An evaluation of the Indian Mahila Samakhya program

Kandpal, Eeshani; Baylis, Kathy; Arends-Kuenning, Mary P. - 2012

This paper shows that participation in a community-level female empowerment program in India significantly increases …

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Labor market impacts of a large-scale public works program: Evidence from the Indian Employment Guarantee Scheme

Zimmermann, Laura - 2012

Recent years have seen an increasing interest in using public-works programs as anti-poverty measures in developing countries. This paper analyzes the rural labor market impacts of the Indian National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, one of the most ambitious programs of its kind, by using a...

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People, Places and Public Policy: Some Simple Welfare Economics of Local Economic Development Programs

Kline, Patrick; Moretti, Enrico - 2013

Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income and unemployment rates. A growing class of place based policies attempt to address these differences through public investments and subsidies that target disadvantaged neighborhoods, cities or regions. Place...

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Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India

Anukriti, S; Kumler, Todd J. - 2014

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of...

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Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India

Anukriti, S; Kumler, Todd J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform

Edmonds, Eric V.; Pavcnik, Nina; Topalova, Petia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …

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Impact of industrialization on relative female survival: Evidence from trade policies

Chakraborty, Tanika - 2012

This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son …

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