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Dams
Duflo, Esther; Pande, Rohini - eSocialSciences - 2005
large dams in India. To account for endogenous placement of dams we use GIS data and the fact that river gradient affects a … estimates suggest that large dam construction in India is a marginally cost-effective investment with significant distributional …
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Gender Quotas and Female Leadership: A Review
Pande, Rohini; Ford, Deanna - eSocialSciences - 2014
randomized allocation of political quotas in India and the unanticipated introduction of board quotas in Norway have allowed …
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Missing Women: Age and Disease: A Correction
Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2013
among children in India, that gender bias in mortality is larger in Sub‐Saharan Africa than in China and India, and that …
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Minority representation and policy choices: the significance of legislator identity
Pande, Rohini - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
law in India to test this prediction empirically. The principal finding is that minority representation has increased …
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Nutrition, Activity Intensity and Wage Linkages: Evidence from India
Imai, Katsushi S.; Annim, Samuel Kobina; Kulkarni, Veena S. - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2012
Index (BMI) in the context of India. The analyses draw upon three rounds of National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data in … support for both the hypotheses in India. Physically intensive activity tends to worsen the nutritional conditions and there …
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Demand for Nutrients in India: An Analysis Based on the 50th, 61st and 66th Rounds of the NSS
Gaiha, Raghav; Kaicker, Nidhi; Imai, Katsushi S.; … - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2012
requirements due to health improvements and lower activity levels in India, we develop an alternative explanation embedded in a …
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Has Dietary Transition Slowed Down in India: An Analysis Based on 50th, 61st and 66th Rounds of NSS
Gaiha, Raghav; Kaicker, Nidhi; Imai, Katsushi S.; … - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2012
Our study examines changes in diets over the period 1993-2009. Diets have shifted away from cereals towards higher consumption of fruits, vegetables, oils and livestock products. Using household data, a food diversity index (FDI) is constructed, based on five food commodities. Significant price...
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Calorie Thresholds and Undernutrition in India, 1993–2004
Kaicker, Nidhi; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
In a recent study, Jensen and Miller (2011) propose a new measure of undernutrition, based on a calorie share of staples threshold. Among the merits of this measure are that (i) it dispenses with calorie norms, and (ii) relies on a behavioural approach to estimate this threshold. What our...
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Dietary Transition in India: An Analysis Based on NSS Data for 1993 and 2004
Kaicker, Nidhi; Kulkarni, Vani S.; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
Our study examines changes in diets over the period 1993-2004. Diets have shifted away from cereals towards higher consumption of fruits, vegetables, oils and livestock products. Using household data, reduced form demand relations are estimated for nine food commodities. Significant own and...
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NREGS and TPDS in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh: Complements or Substitutes?
Jha, Raghbendra; Kaur, Simrit; Gaiha, Raghav; Pandey, … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
Targeted Public Distribution Scheme (TPDS) represent two alternative social safety nets instituted in India as anti …
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