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Can the Culture of Honor Lead to Inefficient Conventions? Experimental Evidence from India
Brooks, Benjamin A. - 2017
universal. The paper reports the results of a field experiment in India in which pairs of men from high and low castes …
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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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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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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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Making Up People -- the Effect of Identity on Preferences and Performance in a Modernizing Society
Hoff, Karla - 2017
there, in a fixed manner. However, in an experiment with almost 600 boys in India, cues to one's place in the traditional …
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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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Caste and Punishment : The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement
Hoff, Karla; Kshetramade, Mayuresh; Fehr, Ernst - 2012
Well-functioning groups enforce social norms that restrain opportunism, but the social structure of a society may encourage or inhibit norm enforcement. This paper studies how the exogenous assignment to different positions in an extreme social hierarchy - the caste system - affects individuals'...
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Has India???s Economic Growth Become More Pro-Poor in the Wake of Economic Reforms?
Datt, Gaurav; Ravallion, Martin - 2012
The extent to which India's poor have benefited from the country s economic growth has long been debated. This paper …
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