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This paper examines the relationship between caste and gender inequality in three states in India. When households are … grouped using conventional, government-defined categories of caste the paper finds patterns that are consistent with existing … literature: lower-caste women are more likely to participate in the labor market, have greater decision-making autonomy within …
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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...
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This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of poverty in India. It shows that no matter which of the two official … rates during these years was sharper for the socially disadvantaged groups relative to upper caste groups, so that a … discussion of the recent controversies in India regarding the choice of poverty lines …
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there, in a fixed manner. However, in an experiment with almost 600 boys in India, cues to one's place in the traditional … caste order turn out to influence the expression of these traits. The experiment assigned students to different treatments … with respect to the salience of caste and had them solve mazes under incentives. It turned out that making caste salient …
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the north, and Sugao in the west. The authors find that in Palanpur the largest scheduled caste group failed to share in …
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groups (Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST)) in India with the intergenerational mobility of men outside these …
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Internal labor migration rates in India have been largely static and low in recent times compared with those in other … the India Human Development Survey, which provides a more recent source of data compared with the Census and other …-12, empirical analysis based on the India Human Development Survey highlights several socioeconomic factors associated with the …
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of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …
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This paper estimates the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral and North-South-East-West Highways in India on welfare …
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methods to assess dimensional contributions to poverty. An empirical illustration for India highlights distinctive features of …
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