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Gender Discrimination and Common Property Resources

Casari, Marco - 2016

In an open economy with common property resources at the community level, marriage and migratory decisions crucially depend on inheritance rules on the commons. Motivated by the traditional management of the commons in the Italian Alps, we present a model that fits the evolution of property...

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Governance and Public Service Delivery in India

Afridi, Farzana - 2017

Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public service delivery in India. Existing research suggests that the … incentives, transparency and state capacity as the key challenges to reducing the governance deficit in India. IGC supported … corruption. There is near consensus, however, that India has had limited success in reducing poverty and enhancing human capital …

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Women Political Leaders, Corruption and Learning : Evidence from a Large Public Program in India

Afridi, Farzana - 2013

female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in … India. Using primary survey data, we find more program inefficiencies and leakages in village councils reserved for women … panel of audit reports, governance improves as female leaders accumulate experience. These results suggest that female …

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Does It Pay to Be a Cadre? Estimating the Returns to Being a Local Official in Rural China

Zhang, Jian - 2012

from businesses and economic activities managed by villages …

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Villages Where China's Ethnic Minorities Live

Gustafsson, Björn - 2006

is the unit of analysis and large surveys for 2002 are used. Minority villages in northeast China are found to have a … somewhat better economic situation than the average majority village, but minority villages in the southwest are clearly faring …. Location is the single most important circumstance working against a favourable economic situation for minority villages in the …

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Land Reforms, Status and Population Growth

Lehmijoki, Ulla - 2014

In this document, we consider the effects of a land reform on economic and demographic growth by a family-optimization model with sharecropping, endogenous fertility and status seeking. We show that tenant farming is the major obstacle to escaping the Malthusian trap with high fertility and low...

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Property Rights and Gender Bias : Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal

Bhalotra, Sonia - 2016

While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West Bengal, and find that it increased child survival...

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Cooperativeness and Impatience in the Tragedy of the Commons

Fehr, Ernst; Leibbrandt, Andreas - 2021

This paper examines the role of other-regarding and time preferences for cooperation in the field. We study the preferences of fishermen whose main, and often only, source of income stems from using a common pool resource (CPR). The exploitation of a CPR involves a negative interpersonal and...

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Electricity Prices, River Temperatures and Cooling Water Scarcity

McDermott, Grant R. - 2013

Thermal-based power stations rely on water for cooling purposes. These water sources may be subject to incidents of scarcity, environmental regulations and competing economic concerns. This paper analyses the effect of water scarcity and increased river temperatures on German electricity prices...

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Something in the Pipe : Flint Water Crisis and Health at Birth

Wang, Rui - 2019

Flint changed its public water source in 2014, causing severe water contamination. We estimate the effect of in utero exposure to polluted water on health at birth using the recent Flint water crisis as a natural experiment. Matching vital statistics birth records with various sources of data,...

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