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Gender bias, credit constraints and time allocation in rural India

Rose, Elaina - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 110 (2000), pp. 738-758

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The social profitability of rural roads in a small open economy : do urban agglomeration economies matter?

Bell, Clive - 2020

In the presence of agglomeration economies, the effects of a rural roads programme depend not only on the reduction in transportation costs, but also on the form of labour mobility. When financed by a poll tax on rural households, the wage will rise, accompanied by some return migration,...

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Rural roads and national welfare : are "local" methods of evaluation satisfactory?

Bell, Clive - 2023 - This version: December, 2023

Do 'local' methods of evaluation, such as partial equilibrium analysis at market prices or estimation of shadow prices, provide reliable assessments of a large rural roads programme's social profitability? Consider a small open economy with one city and a rural hinterland, two traded goods, two...

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Quiet please! : adverse effects of noise on child development

Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - 2016

Noise pollution is detrimental to health and to cognitive development of children. This is not only true for extreme … children, we show that children who are exposed to intensive traffic noise significantly fall behind in terms of school …

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Formation of Special Economic Zone, Agricultural Productivity and Urban Unemployment

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - 2014

most controversial policy issues in many developing economies including India. This paper critically theoretically …

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Formation of SEZ, Welfare and Agricultural Productivity in a Developing Economy

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - 2015

controversial policy issues in many developing economies including India. This paper theoretically evaluates the consequences of …

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The long-run evolution of infrastructure services

Goldsmith, Hugh - 2014

This paper traces the 11,000 year evolution of infrastructure systems during major periods of innovation, expansion and … positive feedback between early capital market development and investment in infrastructure innovations that lowered system …-wide transaction costs has been a critical factor in sustaining growth since 1800. The paper sets out a model of infrastructure …

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Who should pay for infrastructure?

Bird, Richard M.; Slack, Enid - 2018

Consumers should pay directly for many services furnished by the public sector, particularly such congestible services as roads or water and sewerage provided to easily identifiable users. However, these goods are often funded or partly subsidized through general taxes. Politicians seldom opt...

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The robustness of the effects of public investment in infrastructure on private output : evidence for Germany

Kitlinski, Tobias - 2015

This paper investigates the effects of public investment in infrastructure on private output for Germany. Using a … intervals computed following the bootstrap procedure. Our results suggest that the effect of public investment in infrastructure …

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Long Term Effects of Health Investments and Parental Favoritism : The Case of Breastfeeding

Fletcher, Jason M. - 2011

This paper re-examines the effects of breastfeeding on long term educational outcomes using longitudinal data on siblings. While family fixed effects allow controls for all shared family factors, these estimators are sensitive to compensating or reinforcing behaviors by parents. These biases may...

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