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Marital violence and women's employment and property status: evidence from North Indian villages

Bhattacharya, Manasi; Bedi, Arjun S.; Chhachhi, Amrita - 2009

Dominant development policy approaches recommend women's employment on the grounds that it facilitates their empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women's well-being. However, empirical work on the relationship between women's employment status and their...

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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 …

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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 …

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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. …

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The puzzle of Muslim advantage in child survival in India

Bhalotra, Sonia; Valente, Christine; van Soest, Arthur - 2009

The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, it has been argued, have poorer access to public goods. They nevertheless exhibit substantially...

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Informal sector and corruption: An empirical investigation for India

Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - 2011

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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Got water? Social divisions and access to public goods in rural India

Balasubramaniam, Divya; Chatterjee, Santanu; Mustard, … - 2011

We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social … divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to … for access to tap water in rural India. Communities that are heterogeneous in terms of caste (within the majority Hindu …

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Maternal autonomy and the education of the subsequent generation: Evidence from three contrasting states in India

Alfano, Marco; Arulampalam, Wiji; Kambhampati, Uma - 2011

of maternal autonomy on school enrolment age of children in India. The school entry age is modelled using a discrete time … by using proxy measures collected in the third round of the National Family Health Survey of India, on information … states in India - Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh. Our results indicate that female autonomy is not associated with …

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Push or pull? Drivers of female labor force participation during India's economic boom

Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2012

In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …

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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 …

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