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Preferences and skills of Indian public sector teachers 2u<

Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-31

With a sample of 700 future public sector primary teachers in India, a Discrete Choice Experiment is used to measure …

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Widow discrimination and family care-giving in India

Kadoya, Yoshihiko; Yin, Ting - 2012

The purpose of this research is to address the lack of a region-wide view of widow discrimination in India, the home of … lack of a region-wide view analysis of widow discrimination in India with an aging population. …

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Caste comparisons: Evidence from India

Fontaine, Xavier; Yamada, Katsunori - 2013

The caste issue dominates a large part of India's social and political life. Caste shapes Indians' identities, and …

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Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India

Anukriti, S; Kumler, Todd J. - 2014

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of...

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Foreign Aid and Fiscal Behavior in a Bounded Rathionality Model: Different Policy Regimes

Gang, Ira N.; Khan, Haider Ali - 1998

We examine how the source of foreign aid affects the composition of the recipient government's spending. Does the source of aid -- bilateral or miltilateral -- influence ricipient policy-makers' choice between development and nondevelopment expenditure? We depart from previous literature by...

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Liberalization Policy: 'Fits & Starts' or Gradual Change in India

Ansari, Mohammed I.; Gang, Ira. N - 1999

In this paper we assess the impact of external economic liberalization in India on the transmission of aggregate shocks … eight variable vector autoregression (VAR) model. We also test two propositions regarding the nature of India …, and prices for India and its world counterparts. The analysis is extended to include dummy variables and distributed lags …

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The livelihood effects of industrialization on displaced households: Evidence from Falta Special Economic Zone

Paul, Saumik; Sarma, Vengadeshvaran - 2013

West Bengal, India. The main findings indicate a lower labour market participation rate among affected household members …

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Why Do Some Motorbike Riders Wear a Helmet and Others Don't? Evidence from Delhi, India

Grimm, Michael; Treibich, Carole - 2014

We focus on helmet use behavior among motorbike users in Delhi. We use a detailed data set collected for the purpose of the study. To guide our empirical analysis, we rely on a simple model in which drivers decide on self-protection and self-insurance. The empirical findings suggest that risk...

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The Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-off: Unintended Consequences of Financial Incentives

Anukriti, S - 2014

Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex-selection is easily accessible. This paper investigates whether financial incentives can overcome this trade-off in the context of an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to...

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Trusting financial institutions: Out of reach, out of trust?

Filipiak, Ute - 2013

This paper empirically investigates the relationship between individual trust in financial institutions and individual access to these institutions. Based on a large-scale survey of savings patterns of Indians, we find that individuals reporting that they do not have access to certain financial...

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