We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India’s manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not increase after the reforms, we find significant evidence that...

Karnataka is the seventh largest state in India with 38.67% of urban population as of 2011. With 1 out of every 7 people in Karnataka living in Bangalore, it addresses pertinent questions as to how much of this growth is contributed by various regional pockets. This paper aims to identify...

We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. Among general district traits, quality of physical infrastructure and workforce education are the strongest predictors of entry, with labor laws and household banking quality also playing...

Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why did this occur? We look at the four standard explanations: that more women in rural areas are now pursuing higher education and are therefore not available for work (education...

In the past decades, behavioural economics has become an influential and important field of economics. Interest in behavioural economics derives from unease with standard economic models that are based on restrictive assumptions, which confine the nature of human motivation. Although Adam Smith,...

Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why did this occur? We look at the four standard explanations: that more women in rural areas are now pursuing higher education and are therefore not available for work (education...

The balancing between ‘Men' and ‘Women' is sine qua non for sustainability of human race. The present world scenario is tilted in favour of men endangering sustainability of human race. The angle of this tilt might vary from one society to another but majorly it is unbalanced. This hinders...

This paper attempts to analyze for identifying the trends and structural changes in employment scenario, poverty, workforce participation with its growth performance of rural and urban India covering with the past 50 years statistics and also forecasting for future. The important issues that are...

Some 400 million Indians – nearly a third of India's population – have never used electric light bulbs in their homes. Over two-thirds of the population are exposed to intense indoor air pollution caused by burning biomass in inefficient cooking devices that add to India's carbon footprint....