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 … estimates based on a longitudinal survey of over 27000 women conducted in 2005 and 2012, and using the conditional logistic …

paper, we use primary data from India, collected via a life history calendar administered to men and women separately. Using …The impact of childbirth on women's employment has been discussed extensively in the context of developed countries … an event study method, we estimate the impact of the first childbirth on women's labour market participation. Our main …

northern India over seven decades. We describe patterns of poverty dynamics and economic mobility in the village, and we … evidence on relative mobility and poverty dynamics. We then describe evidence on economic mobility obtained via synthetic … classes by households over time: poverty is not inevitably a chronic condition. However, less clear are the factors driving …

There is enough consensus to show that India's economic performance since 1991 is a direct result of the economic … takes a critical look at the available quantitative evidence on the growth of knowledge or technology-based entrepreneurship … sustenance of this activity. -- knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship ; knowledge process outsourcing venture capital ; angel …

assistance. This paper: (i) sets out how a new era is emerging of fewer very poor countries and higher global ambitions …-for example, to end poverty; (ii) proposes a new way to raise and govern international public funds; (iii) discusses the possible …

Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for …, and their information base with respect to poverty and wellbeing has improved dramatically. Nevertheless, appropriate … measurement of poverty remains complex and controversial. This is particularly true in developing countries where (i) the stakes …