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Do Business Groups Help or Hinder Technological Progress in Emerging Markets? Evidence from India

Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2014

Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...

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The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2009

The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, it has been argued, have poorer access to public goods. They nevertheless exhibit substantially...

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Occupational Dualism and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in the Rural Economy : Evidence from China and India

Emran, M. Shahe - 2020

farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a … India faced lower educational mobility compared with the sons in rural China in the 1970s to 1990s. To understand the role … solely to genetic correlations in China, but not in India. Father's nonfarm occupation was complementary to his education in …

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Accounting for Differences in Female Labor Force Participation between China and India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2019

Although, the male labor force participation rate is comparable in China and India, female labor force participation …

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Informal Sector and Corruption : An Empirical Investigation for India

Dutta, Nabamita - 2011

India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and corruption at every stage of economic activities is one of the main reasons behind high...

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Public and Private Sector Jobs, Unreported Income and Consumption Gap in India : Evidence from Micro-Data

Kar, Saibal - 2012

This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate empirically the wage gap as well as consumption expenditure parity between public and private sector workers. It tests the hypothesis that despite a lower level of public sector...

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Household Cooking Fuel Choice in India, 2004-2012 : A Panel Multinomial Analysis

Kuo, Ying-Min - 2019

We use two waves of nationally representative India Human Development Survey to examine factors driving the cooking fuel choice in urban and rural India, separately. We utilize a random effects multinomial logit model that controls for unobserved household heterogeneity. We find that a...

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Women's Inheritance Rights Reform and the Preference for Sons in India

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2018

We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance rights for women modifies the historic preference for sons in India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3.8–4.3 percentage points less likely to be girls, indicating...

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Informational Shocks and Street-Food Safety : A Field Study in Urban India

Daniele, Gianmarco - 2020

The street food market is a major source of food in developing countries, but is often characterized by unsafe food conditions. We investigate whether improvements in food safety can be achieved by providing information to vendors in the form of a training. Among randomly assigned groups of...

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Impact of Pollution from Coal on the Anemic Status of Children and Women : Evidence from India

Datt, Gaurav - 2020

Economic growth in emerging market economies has come hand-in-hand with growing demand for energy, with many of them meeting this higher demand by increased use of coal to fuel electricity generation. This paper examines the impact of pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic...

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