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Aging and Death Under a Dollar a Day
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2010
This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments : Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
Edmonds, Eric V. - 2010
decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760403
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Caloric Requirements and Food Consumption Patterns of the Poor
Eli, Shari - 2015
patterns is important, especially for the poor. Combining anthropometric and time-use data for India, we construct a …
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The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor
Bessone, Pedro; Rao, Gautam; Schilbach, Frank; … - 2021
actigraphy to measure sleep objectively, we find that low-income adults in Chennai, India sleep only 5.5 hours per night on …
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Death and Development
Lorentzen, Peter L.; McMillan, John; Wacziarg, Romain T. - 2021
Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data, we argue that high adult mortality reduces economic growth by shortening time horizons. Higher adult mortality is associated with increased levels of risky behavior, higher fertility, and lower investment in physical and human capital....
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Trade Liberalization, Poverty, and Inequality : Evidence from Indian Districts
Topalova, Petia B. - 2021
poverty and inequality. This paper uses the sharp trade liberalization in India in 1991, spurred to a large extent by external … factors, to measure the causal impact of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in districts in India. Variation in … pre-liberalization industrial composition across districts in India and the variation in the degree of liberalization …
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Recent Trends in Resource Sharing Among the Poor
Haider, Steven J.; McGarry, Kathleen M. - 2021
Motivated in part by the dramatic changes in the United States economy and public assistance policies, many researchers have examined the changes in the resources of the low-income population over the last two decades, with particular attention paid to income from earnings and public assistance...
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Growth, Urbanization and Poverty Reduction in India
Datt, Gaurav - 2016
India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …
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Dams
Duflo, Esther; Pande, Rohini - 2022
large dams in India. To account for endogenous placement of dams we use GIS data and the fact that river gradient affects a … estimates suggest that large dam construction in India is a marginally cost-effective investment with significant distributional …
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Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Breza, Emily; Duflo, Esther; … - 2021
, India, we find that “gung ho entrepreneurs” (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance …
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