This paper investigates if residing in a joint family affects non-farm employment for married women in rural India. Our … status, and for those residing in Northern India. We present evidence to suggest that women with higher education levels are …

allocation of funds for India's largest social protection programme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in … the state of West Bengal in India, and whether incumbent local governments (village councils) gain electorally in the …

in India. Larger farms are more profitable per acre, more mechanized, less constrained in input use after bad shocks, and … minimum farm scale is 20 acres. -- Agriculture ; India ; scale ; profits ; labor ; tractors …

Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India which was introduced by the Indian National Congress (INC). Using longitudinal data … on funds sanctioned and election results from three rounds of elections in Rajasthan, a state in India, we find an …