premia. This paper characterizes the spatial distributions of skills in Brazil, China, and India. To facilitate comparisons …. These lights-based metropolitan areas mirror commuting-based definitions in the United States and Brazil. In China and India … agglomeration is also skill-biased in Brazil, China, and India.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and …

prevalence in India prior to a nationwide eradication program in the 1950s. We find that the program led to modest increases in …

garment workers in India. The program increased women's extraversion and communication, and spurred technical skill upgrading …

India seems to have followed an idiosyncratic pattern of development, certainly compared to other fast-growing Asian … economies. While the emphasis on services rather than manufacturing has been widely noted, within manufacturing India has … they stem from the idiosyncratic policies adopted soon after India's independence. We then look to the future, using the …