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A Multiple-Arm, Cluster-Randomized Impact Evaluation of the Clean India (Swachh Bharat) Mission Program in Rural Punjab, India
Andres, Luis Alberto - 2020
Punjab, India, to assess the impact of a flagship sanitation program of the Government of India. The program, the Clean India …, eliminate the practice of open defecation, and improve the awareness and practice of good hygiene across rural India. It …
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Underreporting of Gender-Based Violence in Kerala, India : An Application of the List Randomization Method
Joseph, George - 2017
is underreported in Kerala, India, using the list randomization technique. The results indicate that the level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957707
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Precarious Drop : Reassessing Patterns of Female Labor Force Participation in India
Andres, Luis Alberto - 2017
participation in India; (ii) estimates the extent of the recent decline in female labor force participation; and (iii) examines and …-12. Approximately 53 percent of this drop occurred in rural India, among those ages 15 to 24 years. Factors such as educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959133
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Casting a Shadow : Productivity of Formal Firms and Informality
Amin, Mohammad - 2019
Using firm-level survey data for a large cross section of countries, the paper assesses the gap in labor productivity between formal and informal firms in developing countries for which comparable data are available. It also investigates the impact of competition from informal firms on the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865434
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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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Sanitation and Externalities : Evidence from Early Childhood Health in Rural India
Andres, Luis Alberto - 2017
uses a sample of children under 48 months in rural areas of India from the Third Round of District Level Household Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973625
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973850
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974009
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974195
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974816