We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes … via women's labour force participation. Using data from the Young Lives Study and taking advantage of the spatial and … over and above any income effect induced by the scheme and is robust to concerns about endogeneity of labour force …

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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 …

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 …

The paper deals with child labour in developing countries. We address a problem that has recently drawn much attention … states and for urban and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998/9), we select our sample drawing information from the household data set …

resource management systems at two garment factories manufacturing for export in India. They make the same product for the same …

This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely … women's participation in the (informal) labour market increases in recessions, presumably, to compensate a decline in their …

examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15 whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 …