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Public infrastructure, location of private schools and primary school attainment in an emerging economy
Pal, Sarmistha - 2009
The paper argues that access to public infrastructure plays a crucial role on the presence of private schools in a community, as it could not only minimise the cost of production, but also ensure a high return to private investment. Results using community, school and child/household-level PROBE...
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Does Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468154
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Women, children and patience: experimental evidence from Indian villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330095
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A distributional analysis of social group inequality in rural India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2009
rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330097
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Reforms, entry and productivity: some evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gangopadhyay, Shubhashis; … - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267353
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Earnings inequality in India: has the rise of caste and religion based politics in India had an impact?
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267499
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The relation between child labour and mother's work: The case of India
Francavilla, Francesca; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2007
states and for urban and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998/9), we select our sample drawing information from the household data set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268139
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Steering towards the high road: a study of human resource management in two Indian garment factories
Lake, Henrietta - 2007
resource management systems at two garment factories manufacturing for export in India. They make the same product for the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268147
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Fatal fluctuations? Cyclicality in infant mortality in India
Bhalotra, Sonia - 2007
This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268267
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Economic influences on child migration decisions: evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Edmonds, Eric V.; Salinger, Philip - 2007
examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15 whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268330