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The COVID-19 pandemic led to stark reductions in economic activity in India. We employ CMIE's Consumer Pyramids …
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We use a large, representative panel data set from India with monthly data on household finances to examine the … incidence of economic harms during the COVID pandemic. We observe a sharp spike in poverty, peaking during India's sharp but …
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This paper studies the long-run effects of a "big-push" program providing a large asset transfer to the poorest Indian households. In a randomized controlled trial that follows these households over 10 years, we find positive effects on consumption (1 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3...
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This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975 … impact on the household saving rate in both India and Korea, even after controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged … and youth dependency ratios and income. It has a negative impact in India, where the bride's side has to pay substantial …
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patterns is important, especially for the poor. Combining anthropometric and time-use data for India, we construct a …
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the long-term economic benefits of India's national program of childhood vaccinations, known as the Universal Immunization … Programme (UIP). We combine individual-level data from the 68th round of the National Sample Survey of India (2011-2012) with …
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self-help group lending program in rural Bihar, India (Hoffmann et al., 2021) to demonstrate that well-functioning groups …
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This paper provides estimates of both national and global welfare costs of bilateral quotas on textiles and apparel … using an applied general equilibrium model which covers bilateral quotas on exports of textiles and apparel negotiated …
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for textiles trade. The benefits from freer trade in textiles and clothing shed light on other sectors that are still …
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