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religion and caste of bank officers and borrowers from a bank in India, and a rotation policy that induces exogenous matching …
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We study the wealth accumulation of Indian parliamentarians using public disclosures required of all candidates since 2003. Annual asset growth of winners is on average 3 to 6 percentage points higher than runners-up. By performing a within-constituency comparison where both runner-up and winner...
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provide new evidence, from a randomized control trial conducted in rural Orissa, India (one of the poorest places in India …
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-scale randomized trials conducted in collaboration with the state police of Rajasthan, India sought to increase police efficiency and …
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We study the effect of a recent expansion in India's National Old Age Pension Scheme on elderly well-being. Estimates …
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on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is that an increase in per-capita Muslim expenditures generates a …. These findings speak to the origins of Hindu-Muslim violence in post-Independence India …
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This paper analyzes the effects of the reforms initiated in India following the balance of payments (BOP) crisis of … changes in performance since the reforms, which started in China in 1979 and in India in 1991. Such a comparison shows more … progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India lags behind other South Asian countries. The responsiveness …
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-based lending product in a new market. In 2005, half of 104 slums in Hyderabad, India were randomly selected for opening of a branch …
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The relative performance of China and India is compared using two different methods and they provide a very different … goods and services and of gross fixed capital formation. Using a two tailed- test we find that China does better than India … higher share of XGS, GFCF etc in GDP than does India. We also find that China usually has a lower CV, namely a more stable …
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estimate the model using a rich dataset from a group lending program in India. The estimation results support our model …
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