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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to school. Using data from a large representative household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884322
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Does Political Reservation for Minorities Affect Child Labor? Evidence from India
Kaletski, Elizabeth; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Scheduled Tribes – on child labor in India. We estimate the effect of political reservation on child labor by exploiting the … Constitution of India. Using data from state and household level surveys on fifteen major Indian states, we find that at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884324
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Does Political Reservation for Minorities Affect Child Labor? Evidence from India
Kaletski, Elizabeth; Prakash, Nishith - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2014
Scheduled Tribes-on child labor in India. We estimate the effect of political reservation on child labor by exploiting the state … India. Using data from state and household level surveys on fifteen major Indian states, we find that at the household level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888371
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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2013
We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to school. Using data from a large representative household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888372
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Does Political Reservation for Minorities Affect Child Labor? Evidence from India
Kaletski, Elizabeth; Prakash, Nishith - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2014
, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority representation on the frequency of visits to … legislative assemblies mandated by the Constitution of India. Using data from state and village level surveys on fifteen major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888397
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Can Elected Minority Representatives Affect Health Worker Visits? Evidence from India
Kaletski, Elizabeth; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority representation on the frequency of visits to … legislative assemblies mandated by the Constitution of India. Using data from state and village level surveys on fifteen major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888485
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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - eSocialSciences - 2013
An innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar was introduced that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to school. Using data from a large representative household survey, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945551
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Do Criminal Representatives Hinder or Improve Constituency Outcomes? Evidence from India
Prakash, Nishith; Rockmore, Marc; Uppal, Yogesh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
in India. Despite the potentially important consequences and the widely divergent views, the implications of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959551
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Education Policies and Practices: What Have We Learnt and the Road Ahead for Bihar
Ranjan, Priya; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
other states in India. It then performs a regression exercise using a panel data of Indian states to identify the correlates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552945
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Does Employment Quota Explain Occupational Choice Among Disadvantaged Groups? A Natural Experiment from India
Prakash, Nishith; Howard, Larry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper examines the effect of a federally-mandated public sector employment quota policy for minorities on their occupational choice. We utilize multiple logit models to estimate the effect of the policy on the choice between a high, middle, or low-skill public sector occupation during the...
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