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The elite and the marginalised: an analysis of public spending on mass education in the Indian States
Pal, Sarmistha; Ghosh, Sugata - 2008
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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Like father, like son? Intergenerational education mobility in India
Azam, Mehtabul; Bhatt, Vipul - 2012
An important constraint in studying intergenerational education mobility for India is the lack of data that contain … father-son matched data that is representative of the entire adult male population in India. Using this father-son matched … data, we study the extent of intergenerational mobility in educational attainment in India since 1940s and provide an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282201
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The redistributive effects of political reservation for minorities: evidence from India
Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - 2009
state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India that arises from national policies that cause …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271283
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289909
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The Connexion between Old and New
van Praag, Bernard M. S. - 2004
In this paper we compare the new satisfaction evaluation approach, developed in the nineties by Oswald, Clark, Blanchflower and others with the older income evaluation (IEQ) approach, developed by Van Praag and Kapteyn in the seventies of the previous century. We find that both approaches yield...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261911
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Does Joining the EU Make You Happy? Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris - 2016
We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern histories, there is no evidence on how it affected the...
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The Analysis of Human Feelings: A Practical Suggestion for a Robustness Test
Bloem, Jeffrey R.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021
Governments, multinational companies, and researchers today collect unprecedented amounts of data on human feelings. These data provide information on citizens' happiness, levels of customer satisfaction, employees' satisfaction, mental stress, societal trust, and other important variables. Yet...
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Bentham or Aristotle in the Development Process? An Empirical Investigation of Capabilities and Subjective Well-being
Graham, Carol Lee; Nikolova, Milena - 2014
Life evaluations and emotional states are distinct subjective well-being (SWB) components. We explore the relationship between opportunities and SWB dimensions, distinguishing between actual capabilities and means (education, employment, and income) and perceived opportunities (autonomy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481615
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The Connexion between Old and New Approaches to Financial Satisfaction
Praag, Bernard M. S. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
In this paper we compare the new satisfaction evaluation approach, developed in the nineties by Oswald, Clark, Blanchflower and others with the older income evaluation (IEQ) approach, developed by Van Praag and Kapteyn in the seventies of the previous century. We find that both approaches yield...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761975
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Bentham or Aristotle in the Development Process? An Empirical Investigation of Capabilities and Subjective Well-being
Graham, Carol Lee; Nikolova, Milena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Life evaluations and emotional states are distinct subjective well-being (SWB) components. We explore the relationship between opportunities and SWB dimensions, distinguishing between actual capabilities and means (education, employment, and income) and perceived opportunities (autonomy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105067