We look at the effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages over the course of … the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting … stage, by lowering ex ante out-migration, and can exacerbate the negative impact of adverse weather on harvest-stage wages …

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … effects explains why Chinese wages have caught up, especially since the mid-1990s. The price effect is only partly explained …

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 …

heterogeneity leading to a set of wages. We focus on the application where hedonic models have been most successful at clarifying … dimensions of heterogeneity in VSL, including by age and consumption plans, the latent trait that affects wages and job safety …

drowned out in our data, which would imply a severe downward bias of the OLS coefficient on risk. But this prediction is at … suggested by Garen (1988), we find negative associations between risk and wages for all workers, which is against the notion of … obtain reasonable VSLs, but the association between risk and wages is not statistically significant. We conclude that if …