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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...

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Does Political Reservation for Minorities Affect Child Labor? Evidence from India

Kaletski, Elizabeth; Prakash, Nishith - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2014

, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority representation on the frequency of visits to … legislative assemblies mandated by the Constitution of India. Using data from state and village level surveys on fifteen major …

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Can Elected Minority Representatives Affect Health Worker Visits? Evidence from India

Kaletski, Elizabeth; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India

Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - 2013

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Consumption and social identity: Evidence from India

Khamis, Melanie; Prakash, Nishith; Siddique, Zahra - 2010

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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Do employment quotas explain the occupational choices of disadvantaged minorities in India?

Howard, Larry L.; Prakash, Nishith - 2011

minorities (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) in India on their occupational choices, as defined by skill level, during the …

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A distributional analysis of the public-private wage differential in India

Azam, Mehtabul; Prakash, Nishith - 2010

We investigate the public-private wage differential in India using nationally representative micro data. While the …

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Labor Market Effects of High School Science Majors in a High STEM Economy

Jain, Tarun; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Prakash, Nishith; … - 2018

using nationally representative data on high school subject choices and adult outcomes for urban males in India. Results …

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Labor Market Effects of High School Science Majors in a High STEM Economy

Jain, Tarun; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Prakash, Nishith; … - 2018

using nationally representative data on high school subject choices and adult outcomes for urban males in India. Results …

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Effect of Political Decentralization and Female Leadership on Institutional Births and Child Mortality in Rural Bihar, India

Kumar, Santosh; Prakash, Nishith - 2017

institutional births and child mortality in the state of Bihar, India. Using the difference-in-differences methodology, we find a …

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