, we examine the urban-rural welfare gap in India in 1983, 1993-94, 2004-05, and 2011-12 across the entire distribution … India Human Development Surveys. …

, we examine the urban-rural welfare gap in India in 1983, 1993-94, 2004-05, and 2011-12 across the entire distribution … India Human Development Surveys …

, we examine the urban-rural welfare gap in India in 1983, 1993-94, 2004-05, and 2011-12 across the entire distribution … India Human Development Surveys …

India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set – the India Human Development Survey, 2005 – to …

(NREGA), enacted in August 2005, is one such program in India. This paper assesses causal impacts (Intent-to-Treat) of NREGA … on public works participation, labor force participation, and real wages of casual workers by exploiting its phased … significant positive impact on the wages of female casual workers-real wages of female casual workers increased 8% more in NREGA …

(NREGA), enacted in August 2005, is one such program in India. This paper assesses causal impacts (Intent-to-Treat) of NREGA … on public works participation, labor force participation, and real wages of casual workers by exploiting its phased … significant positive impact on the wages of female casual workers-real wages of female casual workers increased 8% more in NREGA …

(NREGA), enacted in August 2005, is one such program in India. This paper assesses \emph{causal} impacts (Intent-to-Treat) of … NREGA on public works participation, labor force participation, and real wages of casual workers by exploiting its phased … significant positive impact on the wages of female casual workers - real wages of female casual workers increased 8% more in NREGA …