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The institution of consanguineous marriage - a marriage contracted between close biological relatives - has been a basic building block of many societies in different parts of the world. This paper argues that the practice of consanguinity is closely related to the practice of dowry, and that...
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A large national farm panel from India covering a quarter century (1982, 1999, and 2008) is used to show that the …
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This paper examine asymmetric information about migrant earnings and its implications for remittance behavior using a sample of Indian households with husbands working overseas in Qatar. On average, wives underreport their husbands? income and underreporting is more prevalent in households with...
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influencing the incidence of child health gains from access to piped water in rural India. Using propensity score matching methods …
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that estimates the economic costs of the caste system in particular environments: (1) In North India, discrimination … lower-caste children enrolled in English-language schools in Mumbai after India opened itself up to the world market grew …
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This paper presents the results of an investigation of selected census towns in northern India. Census towns are … settlements that India's census classifies as urban although they continue to be governed as rural settlements. The 2011 census …
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This paper estimates the welfare impact of rural electrification in India using nationally representative household ….6 percent increase in income. The net gain from both increasing the access rate and reducing power outages in rural India is … estimated to be US$11 billion a year. Moreover, India's rural electrification policy appears to be progressive because lower …
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This paper analyzes analyze the impact of deregulatory reforms in India during the 1990s, which eliminated compulsory …
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universal. The paper reports the results of a field experiment in India in which pairs of men from high and low castes …
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is statistically rejected, it is still a good approximation of the labor supply behavior of boat owners in southern India …
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