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Sharecropping contracts in rural India : a note
Chaudhuri, Ananish; Maitra, Pushkar - In: Journal of contemporary Asia 30 (2000) 1, pp. 99-107
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Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Cassan, Guilhem; … - 2013
This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes …
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Path-Breakers: How Does Women's Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Iyer, Lakshmi - 2013
regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman … margin in India where a substantial number of incumbents do not contest re-election. There is no significant entry of new …
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Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India
Maitra, Pushkar; Mani, Subha - 2014
women residing in low-income households in India. We combine pre-intervention data with two rounds of post-intervention data …
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Labor Market Engagement and the Health of Working Adults: Evidence from India
Dang, Archana; Maitra, Pushkar; Menon, Nidhiya - 2017
engagement and work intensity on the weight of urban working women and men in India. Using nationally representative data, a …
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Women's Inheritance Rights Reform and the Preference for Sons in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Brulé, Rachel; Roy, Sanchari - 2017
India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3 …
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Religion and Abortion: The Role of Politician Identity
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Iyer, Lakshmi - 2018
Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India …
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Impact of Pollution from Coal on the Anemic Status of Children and Women: Evidence from India
Datt, Gaurav; Maitra, Pushkar; Menon, Nidhiya; Ray, Ranjan - 2020
pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic status of children and women in India. We show that among very … increasing demand for energy that emerging market economies like India face. …
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Gender, Crime and Punishment: Evidence from Women Police Stations in India
Amaral, Sofia; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Prakash, Nishith - 2021
We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender- based violence. Using administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated with an increase in police reports of crimes...
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Absence of Altruism? Female Disadvantage in Private School Enrolment in India
Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha; Sharma, Anurag - 2016
Using two nationally representative datasets from household surveys conducted in India in 2005 and 2012, the present … endogenous in India because parents continue to have children until they have a son. To redress this potential endogeneity, we …
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