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Are Labor Supply Decisions Consistent with Neoclassical Preferences? Evidence from Indian Boat Owners
Giné, Xavier - 2017
is statistically rejected, it is still a good approximation of the labor supply behavior of boat owners in southern India …
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Growth, Urbanization, and Poverty Reduction in India
Datt, Gaurav - 2017
India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. The study finds a downward trend in …
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The Economic Effects of a Borrower Bailout : Evidence from an Emerging Market
Giné, Xavier - 2017
history, enacted by the government of India against the backdrop of the 2008-2009 financial crisis. The study finds that the …
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Is Workfare Cost-Effective Against Poverty in a Poor Labor-Surplus Economy?
Murgai, Rinku - 2017
used to assess the cost-effectiveness of India's Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar. Participants are found to have …
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Testing Information Constraints on India's Largest Antipoverty Program
Ravallion, Martin - 2017
Public knowledge about India's ambitious Employment Guarantee Scheme is low in one of India's poorest states, Bihar …
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How Does Risk Management Influence Production Decisions? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Cole, Shawn Allen - 2017
Weather is a key source of income risk, especially in emerging market economies. This paper uses a randomized controlled trial involving Indian farmers to study how an innovative rainfall insurance product affects production decisions. The authors find that insurance provision induces farmers to...
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Long-Term Impacts of Household Electrification in Rural India
van de Walle, Dominique P. - 2017
India's huge expansion in rural electrification in the 1980s and 1990s offers lessons for other countries today. The … paper examines the long-term effects of household electrification on consumption, labor supply, and schooling in rural India …
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Evaluating Workfare When the Work is Unpleasant : Evidence for India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2017
theoretically ambiguous implications for the impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme …
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How Accurate are Recall Data? Evidence from Coastal India
de Nicola, Francesca - 2017
-reported survey responses to income and asset questions for a sample of self-employed households from coastal India. It finds that the …
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Does India's Employment Guarantee Scheme Guarantee Employment?
Dutta, Puja - 2017
In 2005 India introduced an ambitious national anti-poverty program, now called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural … the way it is designed, then anyone who wanted work on the scheme would get it. However, analysis of data from India …
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