This paper examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. The data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts. Despite oDesk minimizing many of the frictions that diaspora connections have traditionally overcome, diaspora...

This paper documents the recent slowdown in investment in India and explores its underlying causes. The sharp investment deceleration has sparked an intense debate about the role of interest rates, as well as business confidence and economic policy uncertainty. Our results suggest that while...

"This monograph attempts to offer new perspectives on the shared experience of indenture by looking at two colonies, Mauritius and Fiji, in between 1871 and 1916. It introduces the concept of subaltern careering, which essentially studies the re-migration of Indian indentured labourers between...

Introduction: marking a place in history -- Choosing to leave -- Rising above or hitting the glass ceiling? -- Leaning in and reaching out- personal networks and political processes -- Merging histories: charting feminist journeys in the US and India -- Learning from the past and shaping new...

We provide a direct test of the impact of altruism on remittances. From a sample of 105 male migrant workers from Kerala, India working in Qatar, we elicit the propensity to share with others from their responses in a dictator game, and use it as a proxy for altruism. When the entire sample is...

Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census data from the three largest developed countries receiving Indian immigrants in the world -- the United States, United Kingdom and Canada -- we examine the performance of Indian...