exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its … group by education, gender, and geographical location. -- Caste ; employment ; wage differentials ; public sector ; India …

effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find … is driven by the impact of bureaucracy on the post-privatization business environment, with better institutional support … and less corruption when bureaucracies are large. -- Privatization ; bureaucracy ; economic reform ; Russia …

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female …

) of the Government of India. We argue that a chronic friction of wage payment delay in this flagship programme could …

We study how attendance rates of primary school children respond to cost neutral changes in the design of India …

The poor state of child health in India has generated a number of puzzles that have received attention in the …-life survival advantage in India accruing to later birth orders, which they interpret as the result of a pattern of improving … set of demographic surveys, a disadvantage in child height for later birth orders in India relative to Africa's birth …

. Utilizing quasi-experimental variation in legal fertility limits on village council members in India, we find that at least 2 …

analyze the impact of one of the world's largest anti-poverty programs, India's NREGS, on the intensity of Maoist conflict. We …

India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3 …

Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India …