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Are Caste Categories Misleading? The Relationship between Gender and Jati in Three Indian States

Joshi, Shareen - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between caste and gender inequality in three states in India. When households are …

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On the Frontlines of Scaling-Up : A Qualitative Analysis of Implementation Challenges in a CDD Project in Rural India

Majumdar, Shruti - 2017

This paper analyzes four years of qualitative data observing a large participatory anti-poverty project in India as it …

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Relief from Usury : Impact of a Community-Based Microcredit Program in Rural India

Hoffmann, Vivian - 2017

the first randomized controlled trial-based evidence on this question. Households in rural Bihar, India, were offered low …

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A Detailed Anatomy of Factor Misallocation in India

Duranton, Gilles - 2019

This paper complements the results of earlier work on factor misallocation. The paper first expands the methodology and provides two important decompositions for the main indices. The main result is that factor and output misallocation across districts is at least as important as misallocation...

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Effects of Land Misallocation on Capital Allocations in India

Duranton, Gilles - 2019

Growing research and policy interest focuses on the misallocation of output and factors of production in developing economies. This paper considers the possible misallocation of financial loans. Using plant-level data on the organized and unorganized sectors, the paper describes the temporal,...

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The Misallocation of Land and Other Factors of Production in India

Duranton, Gilles - 2019

Indian districts during 1989-2010. It first distills a number of stylized facts about misallocation in India, and … demonstrates the validity of misallocation metrics by connecting them to regulatory changes in India that affected real property …. Although more-productive establishments in India tend to produce more output, factors of production are grossly misallocated. A …

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Oral Democracy and Women?S Oratory Competency in Indian Village Assemblies : A Qualitative Analysis

Sanyal, Paromita - 2017

In democracies, innovative political institutions have opened up scope for direct public participation often in the form of talk: citizens talking to the state and mutual talk among citizens on matters concerning community development. A prominent example is the Indian gram sabha, or village...

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Recasting Culture to Undo Gender : A Sociological Analysis of Jeevika in Rural Bihar, India

Sanyal, Paromita - 2017

This paper brings together sociological theories of culture and gender to answer the question ? how do large-scale development interventions induce cultural change? Through three years of ethnographic work in rural Bihar, the authors examine this question in the context of Jeevika, a World...

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The Anatomy of Failure : An Ethnography of a Randomized Trial to Deepen Democracy in Rural India

Ananthpur, Kripa - 2017

facilitation program in rural India, with an in-depth, four-year ethnography of the intervention to understand the underlying …

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Revisiting Between-Group Inequality Measurement : An Application to the Dynamics of Caste Inequality in Two Indian Villages

Lanjouw, Peter F. - 2017

Standard approaches to decomposing how much group differences contribute to inequality rarely show significant between-group inequality, and are of limited use in comparing populations with different numbers of groups. This study applies an adaptation to the standard approach that remedies these...

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