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This paper utilizes a large cross-section of data sets such as the ILOSTAT, NSSO Quinquennial Employment and … Unemployment Survey, Labour Bureau Annual Employment and Unemployment Survey, National Family Health Survey and CMIE Consumer … Pyramid Household Survey to comment on the falling female labour force participation rates in India. It is found that not only …
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This paper characterizes household spending in education using microdata from income and expenditure surveys for 12 Latin American and Caribbean countries and the United States. Bahamas, Chile and Mexico have the highest household spending in education while Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay have the...
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This paper studies the intergenerational persistence of industry in India. Using data from a nationally representative …
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Striking gender gaps persist in fundamental aspects of human welfare. In India, the setting of this paper, these gaps …
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This paper provides new evidence on the consequences of foetal exposure to high levels of pollution for the risk of stillbirth, and for the long-term health and labour market outcomes of those that survive. Variation in in utero exposure comes from a persistent weather system that affected...
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There is wide consensus that entrepreneurial talent is the ability to discover and exploit market opportunities by taking the relevant risky decisions. Discovery and exploitation are separate but interlinked features of entrepreneurship requiring, in different proportions, the exploitation of...
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