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Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomised Experiments in India
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit; Cole, Shawn; Linden, Leigh - eSocialSciences - 2006
to improve the quality of education in urban slums. A remedial education programme hired young women from the community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341841
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Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India
Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
one's own group or if there is a preference for \marrying up". We then estimateactual preferences for caste, education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008860715
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Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages … responses they received, how they ranked them, and the eventual matches is used. The preferences for caste, education, beauty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967085
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Educational Policy and the Economics of the Family
Banerjee, Abhijit - eSocialSciences - 2007
The implications of alternative ways to model decisionmaking by families for educational policy are analysed. Many of the policy implications associated with credit constraints cannot be distinguished from the implications of models of the family that differ from the conventional Barro-Becker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699261
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Marry for what? : caste and mate selection in modern India
Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570988
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Marry for What : Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2009
This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages …, education, beauty, and other attributes. We then compute a set of stable matches, which we compare to the actual matches that we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463691
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Under the Thumb of History? Political Institutions and the Scope for Action
Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This paper discusses the two leading views of history and political institutions. For some scholars, institutions are mainly products of historical logic, while for others, accidents, leaders, and decisions have a significant impact. We argue that while there is clear evidence that history...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084537
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Under the Thumb of History? Political Institutions and the Scope for Action
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper discusses the two leading views of history and political institutions. For some scholars, institutions are mainly products of historical logic, while for others, accidents, leaders, and decisions have a significant impact. We argue that while there is clear evidence that history...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951199