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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...
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using nationally representative data on high school subject choices and adult outcomes for urban males in India. Results …
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using nationally representative data on high school subject choices and adult outcomes for urban males in India. Results …
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bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn …
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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 …
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state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India that arises from national policies that cause …
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exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its …
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distinctive social identities in India, where social identities are defined by caste and religious affiliations. The … classification of such items was done by eliciting responses to a survey in India. We match the results of our survey with nationally …
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minorities (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) in India on their occupational choices, as defined by skill level, during the …
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state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India that arises from national policies that cause …
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