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Reforms, growth and persistence of gender gap: Recent evidence from private school enrolment in India

Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha; Sharma, Anurag - 2011

This paper examines the extent of gender gap in private school enrolment in India, an issue that has not been …

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Push or pull? Drivers of female labor force participation during India's economic boom

Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2012

In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …

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An empirical growth model for major oil exporters

Esfahani, Hadi Salehi; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2012

This paper develops a long-run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the standard literature on the Dutch disease and the resource curse, which primarily focuses on...

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Helping hand or grabbing hand? State bureaucracy and privatization effectiveness

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - 2009

Why have economic reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state been successful in some cases but not others? Are reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic activity, or of weak states unable to implement policies effectively and provide a supportive...

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On the reversibility of structural reforms

Campos, Nauro F.; Horváth, Roman - 2012

What are the factors that explain reversals in the implementation of structural reforms? Our main hypothesis is that reversals in different reforms are driven by different factors. This paper uses new reform indicators and presents novel evidence showing that (a) FDI inflows reduce the...

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Poverty and survival

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010

more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes …

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Poverty and Survival

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes …

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Does reform work? An econometric examination of the reform-growth puzzle

Babetskii, Ian; Campos, Nauro F. - 2007

Why are socially beneficial reforms not implemented? One simple answer to this question (which has received little attention in the literature) is that this may be caused by generalized uncertainty about the effectiveness of reforms. If agents are unsure about whether a proposed reform will...

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Impact of reforms on plant-level productivity and technical efficiency: evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - 2008

efficient were introduced later in India following the macroeconomic crisis in 1991. However, whether the post-1991 growth is an …

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Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India

Anukriti, S; Kumler, Todd J. - 2014

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of...

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