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Female Political Leadership and the Prevalence of Water Borne Diseases : Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India
Dongre, Ambrish A. - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between prevalence of water borne diseases and gender of the head of the village councils by exploiting a natural experiment in local governance in India. A constitutional amendment in early 1990s ensured that only women could contest the elections and be the...
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Poverty and Crime: Evidence from Rainfall and Trade Shocks in India
Iyer, Lakshmi; Topalova, Petia - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2014
Does poverty lead to crime? We shed light on this question using two independent and exogenous shocks to household …. The relationship between trade shocks and crime is similar to the observed relationship between rainfall shocks and crime …. Our results thus identify a causal effect of poverty on crime. They also lend credence to a large literature on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010892222
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Crime, incentives and political effort: A model and empirical application for India
Gehring, Kai; Kauffeldt, Florian; Vadlamannati, Krishna … - 2015
We develop a model of the incentives faced by members of parliament (MPs) when deciding whether to engage in effort for their constituencies to assess the effects of their having a criminal background. Political representatives with criminal backgrounds are considered a great problem in many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310815
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Crime, Incentives and Political Effort: A Model and Empirical Application for India
Gehring, Kai; Kauffeldt, T. Florian; Vadlamannati, … - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2015
The large share of politicians facing criminal accusations in India has sparked a public debate and an emerging literature that assesses its causes and effects. We develop a model of the incentives faced by members of parliament when deciding whether to engage in effort for their constituency to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210454
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Crime, incentives and political effort : a model and empirical application for India
Gehring, Kai; Kauffeldt, Florian; Vadlamannati, Krishna … - 2015
The large share of politicians facing criminal accusations in India has sparked a public debate and an emerging literature that assesses its causes and effects. We develop a model of the incentives faced by members of parliament when deciding whether to engage in effort for their constituency to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496786
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Crime, incentives and political effort : a model and empirical application for India
Gehring, Kai; Kauffeldt, Florian; Vadlamannati, Krishna … - 2015 - This version: August 25, 2015
We develop a model of the incentives faced by members of parliament (MPs) when deciding whether to engage in effort for their constituencies to assess the effects of their having a criminal background. Political representatives with criminal backgrounds are considered a great problem in many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011312655
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Poverty and crime: evidence from rainfall and trade shocks in India
Lakshmi Iyer; Topalova, Petia - 2014
Does poverty lead to crime? We shed light on this question using two independent and exogenous shocks to household …. The relationship between trade shocks and crime is similar to the observed relationship between rainfall shocks and crime …. Our results thus identify a causal effect of poverty on crime. They also lend credence to a large literature on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371303
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Crime, Incentives and Political Effort : A Model and Empirical Application for India
Gehring, Kai - 2016
The large share of politicians facing criminal accusations in India has sparked a public debate and an emerging literature that assesses its causes and effects. We develop a model of the incentives faced by members of parliament when deciding whether to engage in effort for their constituency to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998288
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Learning and behavioral spillovers of nutritional information
Prakarsh Singh - 2016
expenditure regardless of their level of literacy. Spillovers not only raise the cost effectiveness of health information programs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517730
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Can information dissemination reduce last mile payment delays in the public works programme? : evidence from a field experiment in India
Das, Upasak; Paul, Amartya; Sharma, Mohit - 2021
Does information dissemination among beneficiaries of welfare programmes mitigate their implementation failures? We … was found for deprived communities. The findings lay a platform for an innovative information campaign that can be used by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422645