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Crossing Boundaries : Gender, Caste and Schooling in Rural Pakistan
Jacoby, Hanan G. - 2017
Can communal heterogeneity explain persistent educational inequities in developing countries? The paper uses a novel data-set from rural Pakistan that explicitly recognizes the geographic structure of villages and the social makeup of constituent hamlets to show that demand for schooling is...
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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 … misleading for understanding the relationship between caste and gender, and for targeting anti-poverty programs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951521
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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...
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A Comprehensive Analysis of Poverty in India
Panagariya, Arvind - 2017
This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of poverty in India. It shows that no matter which of the two official … discussion of the recent controversies in India regarding the choice of poverty lines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973713
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Making Up People -- the Effect of Identity on Preferences and Performance in a Modernizing Society
Hoff, Karla - 2017
there, in a fixed manner. However, in an experiment with almost 600 boys in India, cues to one's place in the traditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974914
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976498
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Closer, But No Cigar : Intergenerational Mobility Across Caste Groups in India
2018
groups (Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST)) in India with the intergenerational mobility of men outside these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012921923
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Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility : Theory and Evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe - 2020
This paper incorporates gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of … mobility. This paper tests these predictions in India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence … rejects the linear conditional expectation function in rural and urban India in favor of a concave relation. Girls in India …
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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 … changed women?s habitus and broke down normative restrictions constitutive of the symbolic boundary of gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971027
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Sex-Selective Abortions, Fertility, and Birth Spacing
Pörtner, Claus C. - 2017
, and birth spacing, using data on Hindu women from India's National Family and Health Surveys. Women with eight or more …
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