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Fernández, Raquel; Rogerson, Richard - 2021

Many social commentators have raised concerns over the possibility that increased sorting in a society can lead to greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility, and marital sorting and parameterize the steady state to...

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Rainfall Forecasts, Weather and Wages Over the Agricultural Production Cycle

Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2014

We look at the effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages over the course of the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting stage, by lowering ex ante out-migration, and can...

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Multi-Product Firms and Product Turnover in the Developing World : Evidence from India

Goldberg, Pinelopi - 2015

detailed firm-level data from India, we provide the first evidence on the patterns of multi-product firm production in a large …-section, multi-product firms in India look remarkably similar to their U.S. counterparts, confirming the predictions of recent … churning--particularly product rationalization -- is far less common in India. We thus find little evidence of quot …

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Social Frictions to Knowledge Diffusion : Evidence from an Information Intervention

Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2016

knowledge gain from watching an information movie in rural India, while randomized village assignment identifies knowledge …

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Affirmative Action in Higher Education in India : Targeting, Catch Up, and Mismatch

Frisancho, Verónica - 2012

graduating class from an elite engineering institution (EEI) in India we evaluate the impact of affirmative action policies in …

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Caste, Kinship and Sex Ratios in India

Chakraborty, Tanika - 2008

This paper explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth … the district-level using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East) and Madras (South). We find …

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The Efficacy of Parochial Politics : Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments

Munshi, Kaivan D. - 2010

Parochial politics is typically associated with poor leadership and low levels of public good provision. This paper explores the possibility that community involvement in politics need not necessarily worsen governance and, indeed, can be efficiency-enhancing when the context is appropriate....

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Preference for Boys, Family Size and Educational Attainment in India

Kugler, Adriana D. - 2015

plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV …

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Networks, Commitment, and Competence : Caste in Indian Local Politics

Munshi, Kaivan D. - 2013

This paper widens the scope of the emerging literature on economic networks by assessing the role of caste networks in Indian local politics. We test the hypothesis that these networks can discipline their members to overcome political commitment problems, enabling communities to select their...

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Why is Mobility in India so Low? Social Insurance, Inequality, and Growth

Munshi, Kaivan D. - 2014

This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite … smooth consumption in rural India for the foreseeable future, as they have for centuries, unless alternative consumption …

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