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Does the Classic Microfinance Model Discourage Entrepreneurship among the Poor? Experimental Evidence from India
Field, Erica; Pande, Rohini; Papp, John; Rigol, Natalia - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 6, pp. 2196-2226
Do the repayment requirements of the classic microfinance contract inhibit investment in high-return but illiquid business opportunities among the poor? Using a field experiment, we compare the classic contract which requires that repayment begin immediately after loan disbursement to a contract...
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Banking for the Poor : Evidence from India
Bucchianeri, Grace Wong - 2012
State-led credit and savings programs have been implemented in numerous low income countries, but their success in reaching the poor remains widely debated. We report on research which exploits the policy features of the Indian social banking program to provide evidence on this issue
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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
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The returns to English-language skills in India
Azam, Mehtabul; Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269426
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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - 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/10010328982
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Education policies and practices: What have we learnt and the road ahead for Bihar
Ranjan, Priya; Prakash, Nishith - 2012
other states in India. It then performs a regression exercise using a panel data of Indian states to identify the correlates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284013
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The Returns to English-Language Skills in India
Azam, Mehtabul; Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548725