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We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous variation in child care costs caused by a Swedish child care...
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Obesity is increasing worldwide for both adults and children. Genetic disposition is responsible for some variation in body weight but cannot explain the dramatic increase in the last two decades. The increase must be due to structural and behavioral changes. One such behavioral change is the...
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We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social Democrats proposed budget cuts affecting parents with young...
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Access to safe water is necessary for lives and livelihoods. In India, a mid-term assessment reveals that the country … factors constrain access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation in India for both the urban and rural poor, and that …
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It is often assumed that recent success in the high-technology software industry will lead India's development. However … development pattern in India. …
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communication technology (ICT) use for broad-based development and economic growth in India. It will examine the role of …
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reference to China and India, with their very distinctive public policy approaches. Much of the economics literature either does …
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Economic policy and policy reform over the last few decades has been motivated by the need to accelerate growth or equivalently to reverse a decline in growth rate. The economic literature on the determinants of growth has burgeoned and disagreement has followed consensus on the policy...
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The paper looks into the level of integration of commodity markets in India, across centres and states using consumer … price data. It measures the extent to which domestic markets for goods in India are integrated, and recommends policy … methodology proposed by Bradford and Lawrence (2004) on the consumer prices of goods in major states across India. This is then …
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The present paper presents the supply and demand trends of rice, wheat, total cereals, pulses, edible oil/oilseeds and sugar/sugarcane. It provides the demand and supply projections for food items during 2011, 2021 and 2026. These projections have been based on change in productivity levels,...
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