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Cash Transfers for Child Development : Experimental Evidence from India

Weaver, Jeffrey; Sukhtankar, Sandip; Niehaus, Paul; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Despite significant economic growth, child development outcomes in India remain poor. Using a large-scale experiment in which randomly-selected mothers receive cash transfers for the first two years of their child's life, we examine the relationship between income and child development in the...

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Dirty Air and Green Investments : The Impact of Pollution Information on Portfolio Allocations

Fisman, Raymond; Ghosh, Pulak; Sarkar, Arkodipta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study exposure to pollution information and investment portfolio allocations, exploiting the rollout of air quality monitoring stations in India. Using a triple-differences framework, we show that retail investors' investments in "brown" stocks are negatively related to local air pollution...

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Money (Not) to Burn : Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning

Jack, B. Kelsey; Jayachandran, Seema; Kala, Namrata; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Particulate matter significantly reduces life expectancy in India. We use a randomized controlled trial in the Indian state of Punjab to evaluate the effectiveness of conditional cash transfers (also known as payments for ecosystem services, or PES) in reducing crop residue burning, which is a...

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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

interest to researchers - in our case, time allocations across market work, household labor, and leisure. Using survey …

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Declining Clientelism of Welfare Benefits? Targeting and Political Competition based Evidence from an Indian state

Maitra, Pushkar; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

or in household incomes, fail to account for the large observed increase in the voters' support for the BJP. Non … received and changes in household incomes. Our results suggest that ideology and identity politics were more important factors …

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Risk Sharing, Commitment Constraints and Self Help Groups

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Kochar, Anjini; Mahajan, Aprajit; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Evaluations of group savings and lending programs have largely focused on average impacts, rather than distributional impacts -- finding modest effects on long-term economic well-being. In this paper, we exploit the randomized roll-out of a self-help group lending program in rural Bihar, India...

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Risk Pooling and Precautionary Saving in Village Economies

Fafchamps, Marcel; Shrinivas, Aditya - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We propose a new method to test for efficient risk pooling that allows for intertemporal smoothing, non-homothetic consumption, and heterogeneous risk and time preferences. The method is composed of three steps. The first one allows for precautionary savings by the aggregate risk pooling group....

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Youth Labor Force Participation, Education, and Human Capital in Asia, by Gender, 1990-2019

Fraumeni, Barbara M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and …

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Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of China and the Developing World

Lerner, Joshua; Liu, Junxi; Moscona, Jacob; Yang, David Y. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

the dramatic growth of high-potential entrepreneurship and venture capital in China. First, using comprehensive data on …-level economic indicators, we find that this effect was driven by country-sector pairs most similar to their counterparts in China …" businesses and technology pioneered by China, and that a system where only rich countries lead in innovation could limit …

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The Impact of Domestic Travel Bans on COVID-19 is Nonlinear in Their Duration

Burlig, Fiona; Sudarshan, Anant; Schlauch, Garrison - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …

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