bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn … household savings, which are primarily financed through increased paternal labor supply. This is the first paper that highlights …

bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn … household savings, which are primarily financed through increased paternal labor supply. This is the first paper that highlights …

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 …

state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India that arises from national policies that cause …

exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its … outcome is also reflected in their higher household consumption expenditure. Overall, the effects vary within each minority …

other states in India. It then performs a regression exercise using a panel data of Indian states to identify the correlates …