We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal …

economic policy to promote consumption in order to reduce savings was suggested,. This paper attempts explains this paradox of … Enterprises). The determinants of household savings in developing countries is one important topic of the development research …. However most studies have ignored investment as one main determinant. In the famous Lewis? model, the savings of farm …

behavior. In rural India, we study the effect on savings of allocating identical weekly payments on a bank account (treated) or …. Based on a novel randomized control trial, we document that the payment method is an important determinant of savings … in cash (control). The treatment impact is huge: savings increase by 110% within three months, and the effect is long …

communication technology (ICT) use for broad-based development and economic growth in India. It will examine the role of …

communication technology (ICT) use for broad-based development and economic growth in India. It will examine the role of …

Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why …

random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …

rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India. …

by addressing the subsidies and cost recovery of the existing tariff policy in the context of Uttar Pradesh (UP), India …

This paper develops a new methodology to analyze how parents in Rajasthan, India make choices about their daughters …