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On Her Own Account : How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender Norms

Field, Erica M. - 2019

Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and influence gender norms? In collaboration with Indian government partners, we provided rural women with individual bank accounts and randomly varied whether their wages from a public workfare program were directly deposited into...

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Understanding Rural Households' Time Use in a Developing Setting : Validating a Low-Cost Time Use Module

Field, Erica Marie; Pande, Rohini; Rigol, Natalia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Time use data facilitate deeper understanding of individual labor supply choices, especially for women, who are more likely to engage in unpaid care and home production. However, traditional time use data collection methods are time-consuming, expensive and susceptible to significant attrition....

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Building Social Capital Through MicroFinance

Feigenberg, Benjamin - 2010

A number of development assistance programs promote community interaction as a means of building social capital. Yet, despite strong theoretical underpinnings, the role of repeat interactions in sustaining cooperation has proven difficult to identify empirically. We provide the first...

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Powerful Women : Does Exposure Reduce Bias?

Beaman, Lori A. - 2008

We exploit random assignment of gender quotas across Indian village councils to investigate whether having a female chief councillor affects public opinion towards female leaders. Villagers who have never been required to have a female leader prefer male leaders and perceive hypothetical female...

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Dams

Duflo, Esther - 2005

large dams in India. To account for endogenous placement of dams we use GIS data and the fact that river gradient affects a … estimates suggest that large dam construction in India is a marginally cost-effective investment with significant distributional …

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Moving to Opportunity or Isolation? Network Effects of a Randomized Housing Lottery in Urban India

Barnhardt, Sharon - 2015

A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the opportunity to move into improved housing on the city's periphery. Fourteen years later, relative to lottery losers, winners report improved housing farther from the city center, but no change in family income or human...

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Why Are Indian Children So Short?

Jayachandran, Seema - 2015

India's child stunting rate is among the highest in the world, exceeding that of many poorer African countries. In this … patterns in the data indicate that India's culture of eldest son preference plays a key role in explaining the steeper birth … if he is the eldest son. Third, the India-Africa height deficit is largest for daughters with no older brothers, which …

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The Value of Regulatory Discretion : Estimates from Environmental Inspections in India

Duflo, Esther - 2014

In collaboration with a state environmental regulator in India, we conducted a field experiment to raise the frequency …

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Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence From Public Works in India and Indonesia

Lewis-Faupel, Sean - 2014

this paper we develop a unique micro-dataset on public works procurement from two fast-growing economies, India and … improvements. In India, where we observe an independent measure of construction quality, e-procurement improves the average road …

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Truth-telling by Third-party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms : Experimental Evidence from India

Duflo, Esther - 2013

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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