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The Skills to Pay the Bills : Returns to On-the-Job Soft Skills Training
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2018
garment workers in India. The program increased women's extraversion and communication, and spurred technical skill upgrading …
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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women
Heath, Rachel - 2014
We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from...
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Challenges of Change : An Experiment Promoting Women to Managerial Roles in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector
Macchiavello, Rocco; Menzel, Andreas; Rabbani, Atonu; … - 2022
Women remain disadvantaged in access to management positions around the world. We conduct a field experiment with 24 large garment factories in Bangladesh to test for inefficient representation of women among line supervisors. We identify the marginal female and male candidates for supervisory...
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Expectations, Wage Hikes, and Worker Voice : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2019
Hirschman's (1970) seminal thesis that enabling worker “voice” prevents exit from the employment relationship has played a foundational role in labor economics. We provide the first experimental test of this hypothesis in a real-world setting via a randomized controlled trial in Indian...
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Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2019
Which managerial skills, traits, and practices matter most for productivity? How does the observability of these features affect how appropriately they are priced into wages? Combining two years of daily, line-level production data from a large Indian garment firm with rich survey data on line...
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The Light and the Heat : Productivity Co-Benefits of Energy-Saving Technology
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Kala, Namrata; Nyshadham, Anant - 2021
decisions. We study consequences of the adoption of energy-efficient LED lighting in garment factories around Bangalore, India …
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On the Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
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Economic Opportunities and Gender Differences in Human Capital : Experimental Evidence for India
Jensen, Robert T. - 2010
Gender differences in health and education are a concern for a number of developing countries. While standard theory predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though...
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How Do Electricity Shortages Affect Industry? Evidence from India
Allcott, Hunt - 2014
hydroelectric power availability. We estimate that India's average reported level of shortages reduces the average plant's revenues …
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India'S De-Industrialization Under British Rule : New Ideas, New Evidence
Clingingsmith, David; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19 … some decline, and India underwent secular de-industrialization as a consequence. While India produced about 25 percent of … organize our thinking about the relative role played by domestic and foreign forces in India's de-industrialization. The …
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