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We propose a Bayesian factor analysis model to rank the health of localities. Mortality and morbidity variables empirically contribute to the resulting rank, and population and spatial correlation are incorporated into a measure of uncertainty. We use county-level data from Texas and Wisconsin...
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poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal … access to bank accounts. The present study investigates the drive to financial inclusion in the form of the growth in bank … bank accounts is not significantly associated with the reduction in below poverty line population across states. Providing …
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Mirroring the railroad industry of the 1940’s and 1950’s, the trucking industry today appears to be achieving impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivity advances in transportation industries with changes in ton-miles per unit of input that are due simply to...
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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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Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
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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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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. …
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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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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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