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 …

and marketed a rainfall index insurance product across three states in India. Marketing agricultural insurance to both … find that both labor demand and equilibrium wages become more rainfall sensitive when cultivators are offered rainfall … contract offered to agricultural laborers smoothes wages across rainfall states by inducing changes in labor supply. Policy …

areas of India, and that farmers respond more strongly to the forecast where there is more forecast skill and not at all …

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 …

potential international markets for greenhouse gases offsets through the CDM and facilitate implementation of CDM in India, a … National Startegy Study on CDM is already underway in the country. However, here again, the agriculture sector, in general, and … livestock sector, in particular has not been included in the ambit of NSS, although in India total emissions of methane from …