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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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Women Empowerment and Economic Development

Duflo, Esther - In: Journal of Economic Literature 50 (2012) 4, pp. 1051-79

Women empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development. Does this imply that pushing just one of these two levers...

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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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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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