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Rationing the Commons
Ryan, Nicholas - 2020
Common resources may be managed with inefficient policies for the sake of equity. We study how rationing the commons … shapes the efficiency and equity of resource use, in the context of agricultural groundwater use in Rajasthan, India. We find …
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Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries--Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455303
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On the Welfare Gains from Tradeable Benefits-in-Kind
Ravallion, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
assignments, and simulates the market using an unusual survey of workers on a rural public-works scheme in a poor state of India …
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Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2019
, India, we find that "gung ho entrepreneurs" (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480290
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Aggregate Effects from Public Works : Evidence from India
Cook, C. Justin - 2020
This paper explores the aggregate economic effects from India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS …
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Long-term Effects of the Targeting the Ultra Poor Program
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482293
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The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities : Evidence from India
Chin, Aimee - 2010
assemblies in India generated by national policies that cause reservations to be revised and the time lags with which revised …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462149
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Growth, Urbanization and Poverty Reduction in India
Datt, Gaurav - 2016
India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …
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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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Early Childhood Intervention for the Poor : Long Term Outcomes
Andrew, Alison; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Augsburg, Britta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
scalable intervention in India, that affected developmental outcomes in the short-term, including cognition (0.36 SD p=0 …
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