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Aligning with One’s Own : Private Voting and Public Outcomes in Elections in Rural India
Jha, Raghbendra - 2011
This paper has the objective of showing that identity based voting will lead to improvements in household welfare through increased access to welfare programs. Using newly available data from rural India, we establish that identity based voting will lead to enhanced participation in welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118178
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Do Citizens Enforce Accountability for Public Goods Provision? Evidence from India’s Rural Roads Program
Goyal, Tanushree - 2021
While a vast literature examines the prevalence of ethnic voting and clientelism in low-income contexts, empirical tests of whether elections are being used to hold politicians accountable for public goods provision are few. Leveraging a rare exogenous variation in the World's largest rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013236017
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Citizens' preferences for inter-municipal cooperation in rural areas : evidence from a survey in three Hessian counties
Bergholz, Christian; Bischoff, Ivo - 2015 - This version: July 18, 2015
In rural areas, small and medium-sized municipalities are challenged by demographic change and intensified competition for capital and high-skilled labor. Inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) is often regarded as a significant element of a strategy to meet these challenges. Based on a survey in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011302449
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Forced Off Farm? Labor Allocation Response to Land Requisition in Rural China
Mu, Ren - 2017
Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate revenue. This study investigates the impacts of land requisition on farmers' decisions of labor allocation between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. We argue that,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960251
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Forced off farm? : labor allocation response to land requisition in rural China
Shuang Ma; Mu, Ren - 2017
Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate revenue. This study investigates the impacts of land requisition on farmers' decisions of labor allocation between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. We argue that,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631523
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Social Capital and the Effectiveness of Land Use Policies : Evidence from Rural China
Bao, Helen X. H.; Jiang, Yan; Wang, Ziyou - 2022
proposed analytical framework. Benefiting from a comprehensive household survey dataset from 17 provinces in China, we adopt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080526
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Unpacking the Effects of Rural Homestead Development Rights Reform on Rural Revitalization in China
Zhao, Qianyu; Bao, Helen; Yao, Shurong - 2022
Rural homestead development rights (RHDR) reform is a pivotal tool to promote rural revitalization in China. Thus … system reform in China. We propose a unified theoretical framework to unpack the effectiveness of RHDR reform by contrasting … this study not only underpin the significance of rural homestead system reform to promote rural revitalization in China …
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Large-Scale School Meal Programs and Student Health : Evidence from Rural China
Wang, Jingxi; Hernandez, Manuel A.; Deng, Guoying - 2021
China, on the health and nutritional status of compulsory education students aged 6-16. We use data from multiple rounds of … the China Health and Nutrition Survey between 2004-2015 and implement a quasi-experimental approach exploiting cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235888
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Democracy learning, election quality and voter turnout : evidence from village elections in rural China
Zhang, Tonglong; Zhang, Linxiu; Hou, Linke - In: China agricultural economic review : publ. in … 7 (2015) 1, pp. 143-156
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Health shocks, village elections, and household income : evidence from rural China
Zhang, Jing; Gan, Li; Xu, Lixin Colin; Yao, Yang - In: China economic review : an international journal 30 (2014), pp. 155-168
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