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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240234
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011014318
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What explains the stagnation of female labor force participation in urban India?
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2013
We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688399
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Just rewards? Local politics and public resource allocation in South India
Besley, Timothy; Pande, Rohini; Rao, Vijayendra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
This paper uses data on elected village councils in South India to examine the political economy of public resource …
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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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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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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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Intra-household Gender Disparities in Children’s Medical Care before Death in India
Asfaw, Abay; Klasen, Stephan; Lamanna, Francesca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The excess female mortality in India and other South Asian countries is no longer contentious. Less known are the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762027
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Intrahousehold Health Care Financing Strategy and the Gender Gap: Empirical Evidence from India
Asfaw, Abay; Klasen, Stephan; Lamanna, Francesca - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2008
The “missing women” dilemma in India has sparked interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of …
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