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Sibling death clustering in India : state dependence vs. unobserved heterogeneity
Arulampalam, Wiji (contributor);  … - 2006
Data from a range of different environments indicate that the incidence of death is not randomly distributed across families but, rather, that there is a clustering of death amongst siblings. A natural explanation of this would be that there are (observed or unobserved) differences across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003355648
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Population management, RH law, and inclusivity
Pernia, Ernesto M. - 2014
Taking off from the self-evident fact that the population variable centrally figures in both labor and product markets …, this paper argues that the growth rate of population, its age structure and spatial distribution should be key … considerations in a country’s development strategy to promote rapid and sustained economic growth, full employment, poverty reduction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371422
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Gender bias in education during conflict : cvidence from Assam
Roy, Sutanuka; Prakarsh Singh - 2016
Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517894
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Gender bias in education during conflict : evidence from Assam
Roy, Sutanuka; Prakarsh Singh - 2016
Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476468
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Persistence in Infant Mortality : Evidence for the Indian States
Arulampalam, Wiji - 2007
This paper investigates the high correlation in infant mortality across siblings using micro-data for each of the fifteen major states of India. The main finding is that, in thirteen of the fifteen states, there is evidence of a causal effect of a child death on the risk of death of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778030
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Infrastructure, urbanization, and demand for bank and non-bank loans of households in the People's Republic of China
Lyons, Angela C.; Grable, John E.; Zeng, Ting - 2017
turn can be used to improve human capital accumulation, socioeconomic status, and long-run economic development. One way to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011689720
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Sibling Death Clustering in India : State Dependence vs. Unobserved Heterogeneity
Arulampalam, Wiji; Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2006
Data from a range of different environments indicate that the incidence of death is not randomly distributed across families but, rather, that there is a clustering of death amongst siblings. A natural explanation of this would be that there are (observed or unobserved) differences across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014055993
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The labor/land ratio and India's caste system
Duleep, Harriet - 2012
-century statistics on regional population/land ratios linked to anthropological measures of caste-system rigidity. Both the longitudinal … and cross-sectional evidence suggest that the labor/land ratio affected the caste system's development, persistence, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284017
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Development path of China and India and the challenges for their sustainable growth
Li, Yuefen; Zhang, Bin - 2008
The segmentation of global manufacturing and services provided China and subsequently India with a golden opportunity to make full use of their absolute advantage low cost yet educated labour to integrate into the world economy within a comparatively shorter period of time than some earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273488
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India's economic growth: From socialist rate of growth to Bharatiya rate of growth
Virmani, Arvind - 2004
details of the various phases of development and the role thatgovernment and government monopoly has played in different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807532