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infant mortality from a developing country, the paper examines the effectiveness of India's environmental regulations. The …
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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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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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India's case fatality rate (CFR) under covid-19 is strikingly low, trending from 3% or more, to a current level of … least partly due to India's younger age distribution. In this paper, we use age-specific fatality rates from 14 comparison … countries, coupled with India's distribution of covid-19 cases to “predict" what India's CFR would be with those age …
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. India has the largest proportion of missing adult women who are without a husband, followed by the countries in East Africa …
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In collaboration with a state environmental regulator in India, we conducted a field experiment to raise the frequency …
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. But for India, a developing country with great sectoral and occupational vulnerabilities, this dramatic reduction is more …
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In many regulated markets, private, third-party auditors are chosen and paid by the firms that they audit, potentially creating a conflict of interest. This paper reports on a two-year field experiment in the Indian state of Gujarat that sought to curb such a conflict by altering the market...
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We study a contract change for tea pluckers on an Indian plantation, with a higher government-stipulated baseline wage. Incentive piece rates were lowered or kept unchanged. Yet, in the following month, output increased by 20–80%. This response contradicts the standard model and several...
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