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Is a Decentralized Right-to-Work Policy Feasible?
Ravallion, Martin - 2019
Evidence on the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act suggests that the available work is …
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Analyzing the Impact of the World's Largest Public Works Project on Crime
Das, Satadru - 2016
India started the implementation of a rural public works program in 2006, covering all districts of the country within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985574
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Nominal Wage Rigidity in Village Labor Markets
Kaur, Supreet - 2014
This paper tests for downward nominal wage rigidity by examining transitory shifts in labor demand, generated by rainfall shocks, in 600 Indian districts from 1956-2009. Nominal wages rise in response to positive shocks but do not fall during droughts. In addition, transitory positive shocks...
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Up in Smoke : the Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
Hanna, Rema - 2012
provide new evidence, from a randomized control trial conducted in rural Orissa, India (one of the poorest places in India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107019
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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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Using Aggregated Relational Data to Feasibly Identify Network Structure Without Network Data
Breza, Emily - 2017
alone. Finally, using calculations from J-PAL fieldwork, we show that in rural India, for example, ARD surveys are 80 …
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Holy Cows or Cash Cows?
Attanasio, Orazio - 2014
two districts of Uttar Pradesh, India. The net profit generated ignoring labour costs, gives rise to a small positive rate …
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Mothers’ Social Networks and Socioeconomic Gradients of Isolation
Andrew, Alison; Attanasio, Orazio; Augsburg, Britta; … - 2021
in rural Odisha, India. This is a group for whom highly-gendered norms around marriage, mobility and work are likely to …
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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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Jobs and Kids : Female Employment and Fertility in Rural China
Fang, Hai - 2010
Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship between the two should be better understood. Causality...
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