This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …

-level data from India, we find that an increase in female labor supply due to the tariff reductions was associated with a 7 …

This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm size dynamics …

For the past 60 years, India has promoted small-scale industries (SSI). Industrial promotion took the form of reserving … allows them to follow plants over time, and to examine whether small factories in India exhibit faster employment growth than … than smaller, older factories. They then exploit the fact that India eliminated SSI reservations for more than half of all …

from India, we find evidence of positive effects of women’s age at marriage on their own and their spouses’ labor market …