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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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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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Do School get Their Money? PAISA 2012
Initiative, Accountability - eSocialSciences - 2013
The PAISA exercise uses planning and budgeting systems as the entry point, it is an attempt to build an empirical understanding of current governance processes at the grassroots to push for a larger debate on state capacity and administrative capability for building an education delivery...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945413
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Revival of Rural PDS: Expansion and Outreach
Rahman, Andaleeb - eSocialSciences - 2014
Using the recent rounds of NSS data, this paper evaluates the performance and outreach of India's public distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945414
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Incidence of Poor and Poverty Risk in India across NSS Regions for Rual and Urban Areas, 2004-05 and 2009-10
Mishra, Srijit - eSocialSciences - 2014
This note provides an estimate of incidence of poor and poverty risk in India across NSS regions for 2004-05 and 2009 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945476
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Internal Migration for Education and Employment among Youth in India
S, Chandrasekhar; Sharma, Ajay - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper sheds light on the issue of internal migration for education and employment among the youth. i.e those aged 15-32 years. The paper is a first step towards addressing the issue of whether states should be concerned about internal brain drain since some states act as feeders and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945543
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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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The potato value chain in Bihar: An assessment and policy implications
Minten, Bart; Reardon, Thomas; Singh, K.M.; Sutradhar, Rajib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
areas in India where the growing period is later and where the minimum temperature during the production period is … than most other states in India. Given such comparative advantage, it seems that the state could benefit from the increased … active in India are bringing in potato varieties (e.g. Lady Roseta, Atlantic) which might be prone to diseases that might be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260649
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Feed and Fodder Value Chains in Bihar: Some Empirical Evidences
Singh, K.M.; Singh, R.K.P.; Jha, A.K.; Kumar, Abhay; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
in India, both for household nutrition and income. Most of the livestock are kept in mixed farming systems, where crop … residues, mainly cereal straws have been an important feed resource. India is deficient in the supply of fodder, resulting in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260801
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Caste, land, and migration : a preliminary analysis of a village survey in an underdeveloped state in India
Tsujita, Yuko; Oda, Hisaya - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012
This paper explores migration from Bihar, one of the most underdeveloped states in India, by paying particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540681