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exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its …
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, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less …
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The caste system - a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy - distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …
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This paper shows that participation in a community-level female empowerment program in India significantly increases …
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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...
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of individuals to information. Goods advertising is competing with political information for people's attention. This …
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a potentially powerful tool in the fight against the COVID- 19 pandemic. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, there has been a scramble to use AI. This article provides an early, and necessarily selective review, discussing the contribution of AI to the fight...
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The UK is 'locked down' because of coronavirus (COVID-19). No clear exit strategy currently exists. This paper suggests …
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Using the 2012-13 American Time Use Survey, I find that both who people spend time with and how they spend it affect their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases most with additional time spent with spouse. Among...
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Coronavirus has credited the State of California for taking early action to prevent a statewide COVID-19 outbreak, no study has … examined the impact of California's SIPO. Using daily state-level coronavirus data and a synthetic control research design, we …
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