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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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India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of …
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Among countries with comparable levels of income, India has one of the more progressive disability policy frameworks …; however, people with disabilities in India are subject to multiple disadvantages. This paper focuses on state-level variations …
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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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This paper documents the extent of inequality of educational opportunity in India spanning the period 1983-2004 using …
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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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more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes … elasticity declines over time after 1981. It is invariant to controlling for income inequality but diminished upon controlling …
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women residing in low-income households in India. We combine pre-intervention data with two rounds of post-intervention data …
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This study analyses employment transitions of working-age women in India. The puzzling issue of low labour force … participation despite substantial economic growth, strong fertility decline and expanding female education in India has been studied … economic factors in explaining the declining workforce participation of women in India. We also explore other individual and …
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women residing in low-income households in India. We combine pre-intervention data with two rounds of post-intervention data …
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