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Payment Choice, Image Motivation and Contributions to Charity : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2009
This study uses a door-to-door fundraising field experiment to examine the impact of different payment options on charitable giving. Households are randomly divided into three treatments, distinguished by the possibility for respondents to donate cash, by debit card, or both. I find that due to...
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Annual Status of Education Report (Rural) 2009 (Provisional)
Pratham, Pratham - eSocialSciences - 2010
The purpose of the ASER 2009’s rapid assessment survey in rural areas is twofold: (i) to get reliable estimates of the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level) at the district level; and (ii) to measure the change in these basic learning and...
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Inequalities Reinforced? Social Groups, Gender and Employment
N, Neetha - eSocialSciences - 2013
Based on the last four rounds of NSS data the study explores some dimensions of women’s labour market participation across social groups. [CWDS Occasional Paper No.59]. URL:[http://www.cwds.ac.in/OCPaper/OccasionalPaper59.pdf].
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Role of Collective Agency in Gender Rights
Patel, Vibhuti - eSocialSciences - 2014
The fact that progress in equal rights for women has come about largely through the efforts of social reform movement in the 19th century and women’s liberation movement in the 20th century Maharashtra highlights the essential role of collective agency in human progress. Given the...
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Bridging Education Gender Gaps in Developing Countries: The Role of Female Teachers
Muralidharan, Karthik; Sheth, Ketki - eSocialSciences - 2013
Recruiting female teachers is frequently suggested as a policy option for improving girls' education outcomes in … developing countries, but there is surprisingly little evidence on the effectiveness of such a policy. The gender gaps in …
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Economic Survey 2005-06, Chapter 10
eSocialSciences; Ministry of Finance - 2006
Social Sectors
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National Human Development Report 2001
Planning Commission, India - eSocialSciences - 2007
The process of development, in any society, should ideally be viewed and assessed in terms of what it does for an average individual.For any approach or development framework to be meaningful and effective in directing public policies and programmes it has to be anchored in a social context....
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Participation in a School Incentive Programme in Karnataka
Bernhardt, Sharon - eSocialSciences - 2006
Development education policy has recently focused on school-based recognition and conditional cash transfer programs to … that focus on levels (rather than changes) of achievement can exacerbate inequality in education. In addition, our findings …
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Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomised Experiments in India
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit; Cole, Shawn; Linden, Leigh - eSocialSciences - 2006
to improve the quality of education in urban slums. A remedial education programme hired young women from the community …
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Report of the Central Advisory Board of Education Committee on Free and Compulsory Education Bill and Other Issues related to Elementary Education
Education, Central Advisory Board of - eSocialSciences - 2006
Education (C.A.B.E.) held on 10-11 August, 2004, a Committee of C.A.B.E. was constituted vide Order dated 8.9.04 of the Ministry … in Art. 21-A of the Constitution, and (b) To examine other issues related to elementary education for achieving the … objective of free and compulsory basic education.†This is its report …
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