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Who was impacted and how? The COVID-19 pandemic and the long uneven recovery in India

Jha, Mrinalini; Lahoti, Rahul - 2022

We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate … remained incomplete and was unevenly spread over the population even 22 months after the start of the pandemic. Poverty more …

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Moral reputation and political selection in a decentralized democracy: Theory and evidence from India

Banerjee, Prasenjit; Iversen, Vegard; Mitra, Sandip; … - 2020

What motivates individuals to become politicians? This is an important question in decentralized democracies, where … local politicians play a key role in public goods provision. However, and in emerging economies, bureaucratic hurdles and … concern for reputation, our model predicts that politicians' effort is increasing in their reputation concern. With …

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Pro-poor service delivery and social identity: An experimental investigation

Mueller, Ulrike - 2012

India addressed the requirement for pro-poor service delivery in rural regions by introducing decentralization and …

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Urbanization and the South Asian enigma: A case study of India

Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb; James, K. S. - 2010

South Asia has the highest rate of child malnutrition in the world, despite rapid economic growth compared to other regions such as sub-Saharan Africa. Known as the 'South Asian enigma' this feature is partly attributed to the low status of women in South Asian societies. This paper examines...

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The COVID-19 pandemic and poor women's agency: A case of domestic workers in Delhi

Chakravarty, Deepita; Nayak, Nandini - 2022

Studies on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have demonstrated that poor women have been the worst sufferers in terms of pay cuts and job losses. Women are the hardest hit also at the household level. They have to bear the brunt of constrained household budgets and have also encountered...

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Are caste categories misleading? The relationship between gender and jati in three Indian states

Joshi, Shareen; Kochhar, Nishtha; Rao, Vijayendra - 2017

for an understanding of the relationship between caste and gender, and for the targeting of anti-poverty programmes. …

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For whom does the phone (not) ring? Discrimination in the rental housing market in Delhi, India

Datta, Saugato; Pathania, Vikram - 2016

Using an audit experiment carried out on of India's largest real estate websites, we document striking variations between landlords' treatment of upper-caste Hindus, Other Backward Castes, Scheduled Castes, and Muslims. We find strong evidence of discrimination against Muslim applicants, both in...

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Long-term effects of land reform on human capital accumulation: Evidence from West Bengal

Deininger, Klaus; Jin, Songqing; Yadav, Vandana - 2011

We use data on inter-generational gains in educational attainment by some 500,000 individuals in 200 West Bengal villages to explore gender-differentiated impacts of land reform on human capital accumulation at the individual level. While there are significant gains (of about 0.3 years for...

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Finance, gender, and entrepreneurship: India's informal sector firms

Gang, Ira N.; Natarajan, Rajesh Raj; Sen, Kunal - 2020

How does informal economic activity respond to increased financial inclusion? Does it become more entrepreneurial? Does access to new financing options change the gender configuration of informal economic activity and, if so, in what ways and what directions? We take advantage of nationwide data...

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Multigenerational mobility in India

Kundu, Anustup; Sen, Kunal - 2021

Most studies of intergenerational mobility focus on adjacent generations, and there is limited knowledge about multigenerational mobility-that is, status transmission across three generations. We examine multigenerational educational and occupational mobility in India, using a nationally...

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