enforcement. In collaboration with the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB), in India, we increased the rate of inspection for a …

rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India. …

The tertiary-secondary (college-high school) wage premium has been increasing in India over the past decade, but the … in India. The findings of this paper are that the increase in the wage premium has come mostly from demand shifts in …

This paper examines changes in the wage structure in urban India during the past two decades (1983-2004) across the … increasing effects of tertiary education suggests that wage inequality in urban India may increase further in the near future as …

India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set - the India Human Development Survey, 2005 - to …

state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India that arises from national policies that cause …

exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its …

large dams in India. To account for endogenous placement of dams we use GIS data and the fact that river gradient affects a … the dam benefit from increased irrigation and see agricultural production increase and poverty fall. Overall, our … estimates suggest that large dam construction in India is a marginally cost-effective investment with significant distributional …