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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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Essays on India in a Global Context    
Singh, Nirvikar - Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, … - 2014
essays, which cover a period of almost four years, from October 2010 to May 2014, is the issue of how India is finding its …
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Essays on India’s Political Economy    
Singh, Nirvikar - Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, … - 2014
essays, which cover a period of almost four years, from September 2010 to June 2014, is the issue of governance in India, and …
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Performance of Internet Kiosks in Rural India
Kendall, Jake; Singh, Nirvikar - In: Review of Market Integration 4 (2012) 1, pp. 1-43
franchise (at the time of sampling) of over 1000 locally owned, Internet kiosks in rural India. We analyze data from 74 of n …
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The Regulation of Land Markets: Evidence from Tenancy Reform in India
Besley, Timothy J.; Leight, Jessica; Pande, Rohini; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
While the regulation of tenancy arrangements is widespread in the developing world, evidence on how such regulation influences the long-run allocation of land and labor remains limited. To provide such evidence, this paper exploits quasi-random assignment of linguistically similar areas to...
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What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India?
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between …
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Foreign Investors Under Stress; Evidence from India
Patnaik, Ila; Shah, Ajay; Singh, Nirvikar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
focused on tail events, which yields evidence on these questions. The results, for India, do not suggest that financial …
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Transaction Costs, Information Technology and Development
Singh, Nirvikar - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2004
India that examined the economics of rural Internet kiosks, and relate this multifaceted case study to the theoretical …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945391
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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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