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Patenting Public-Funded Research for Technology Transfer: A Conceptual-Empirical Synthesis of US Evidence and Lessons for India
Ray, Amit Shovon; Saha, Sabyasachi - 2010
against the backdrop of the US experience in an attempt to draw concrete lessons for India. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807650
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Long term impacts of compensatory preschool on health and behavior: Evidence from head start
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2012
This paper provides new estimates of the medium and long-term impacts of Head Start on the health and behavioral problems of its participants. We identify these impacts using discontinuities in the probability of participation induced by program eligibility rules. Our strategy allows us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321475
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Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: Evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program
Aygün, Aysun Hızıroğlu; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koyuncu, Murat - 2021
This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population (including 3.6 million Syrians). Refugees in Turkey are supported by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012628458
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Neighborhood choices, neighborhood effects and housing vouchers
Davis, Morris A.; Gregory, Jesse; Hartley, Daniel A.; … - 2017
We study how households choose neighborhoods, how neighborhoods affect child ability, and how housing vouchers influence neighborhood choices and child outcomes. We use two new panel data sets with tract-level detail for Los Angeles county to estimate a dynamic model of optimal tract-level...
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Liquidity constraints, informal financing, and entrepreneurship: Direct and indirect effects of a cash transfer programme
Ribas, Rafael P. - 2014
credit constraints and informal financial assistance in explaining entrepreneurship. Previous research focuses exclusively on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335903
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Capability approach to public-space harassment of women: Evidence from India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan
Berik, Günseli; Bhattacharya, Haimanti; Singh, Tejinder Pal - 2023
literature on public-space harassment (PSH) is sparse. Based on 2021-22 surveys in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan this paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581819
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Capability approach to public-space harassment of women: Evidence from India and Bangladesh
Berik, Günseli; Bhattacharya, Haimanti; Singh, Tejinder Pal - 2022
literature on public-space harassment (PSH) is rather sparse. Based on 2021 surveys in Bangladesh and India, this paper examines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480671
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Non-food expenditures and consumption inequality in India
Amit, Basole; Deepankar, Basu - 2015
This paper contributes to the ongoing debate about economic inequality in India during the post-reform period. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526702
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Social Hierarchies and Public Distribution of Food in Rural India
Basu, Deepankar; Das, Debarshi - 2014
In this paper, we develop a simple model that shows that consumption of PDS food grains is significantly different between rich and poor households in states where the PDS functions relatively well; in places where the PDS is non-functional, the difference is not significant. Using...
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Leakages from Public Distribution System (PDS) and the way forward
Gulati, Ashok; Saini, Shweta - 2015
The public distribution system (PDS) has been one of the main policy instruments of the Government of India (GoI) to … that at an all-India level, 46.7 per cent or 25.9 MMTs of the off-taken grain did not reach the intended PDS beneficiaries … in 2011-12. The percent share of total leakage increased with states where greater percent of India's poor resided (five …
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