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Top Indian Incomes, 1956-2000
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Piketty, Thomas - 2003
This paper presents data on the evolution of top incomes and wages from 1956 to 2000 in India using individual tax … were in 1956. We argue that this U-shaped pattern is broadly consistent with the evolution of economic policy in India: The … period from 1956 to the early to mid 1980s was also the period of "socialist" policies in India, while the subsequent period …
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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit V. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
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What Is Middle Class about the Middle Classes around the World?
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 22 (2008) 2, pp. 3-28
We expect a lot from the middle classes. At least three distinct arguments about the special economic role of the middle class are traditionally made. In one, new entrepreneurs armed with a capacity and a tolerance for delayed gratification emerge from the middle class and create employment and...
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Limited Attention and Income Distribution
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Mullainathan, Sendhil - In: American Economic Review 98 (2008) 2, pp. 489-93
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The Two Poverties
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2001
There are at least two distinct and inconsistent views of poverty. These views, which can be called "poverty as desperation" and "poverty as vulnerability", have different implications about anti-poverty policy. It is important to confront the conflict between them before data can be applied to...
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The Two Poverties
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2003
There are at least two distinct and inconsistent views of poverty. These views, which can be called "poverty as desperation" and "poverty as vulnerability", have different implications about anti-poverty policy. It is important to confront the conflict between them before data can be applied to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014130187
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The Returns to English-Language Skills in India
Azam, Mehtabul; Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2010
India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set - the India Human Development Survey, 2005 to …
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Education Policies and Practices: What Have We Learnt and the Road Ahead for Bihar
Ranjan, Priya; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
other states in India. It then performs a regression exercise using a panel data of Indian states to identify the correlates …
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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to school. Using data from a large representative household...
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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2013
We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to school. Using data from a large representative household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888372