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Household savings and marriage payments : evidence from dowry in India

Anukriti, S; Kwon, Sungoh; Prakash, Nishith - 2018

bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn …

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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 …

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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 … accorded priority by the policymakers in Bihar. -- education ; enrollment ; out-of-school ; Bihar ; India …

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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...

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The role of constitutions on poverty : a cross-national investigation

Minkler, Lanse; Prakash, Nishith - 2015

In this paper we use novel historical data on economics and social rights from the constitutions of 201 countries and an instrument variable strategy to answer two important questions. First, do economic and social rights provisions in constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of...

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When goal-setting forges ahead but stops short

Islam, Asad; Kwon, Sungoh; Masood, Eema; Prakash, Nishith; … - 2020

In this study, we use at scale randomized control trial among 18,000 secondary students in 181 schools in Tanzania (Zanzibar) to examine the effects of personal best goal-settings on students' academic performance. We also offer non-financial rewards to students to meet the goals they set. We...

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When goal-setting forges ahead but stops short

Islam, Asad; Kwon, Sungoh; Masood, Eema; Prakash, Nishith; … - 2020

In this study, we use at scale randomized control trial among 18,000 secondary students in 181 schools in Tanzania (Zanzibar) to examine the effects of personal best goal-settings on students’ academic performance. We also offer non-financial rewards to students to meet the goals they set. We...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208663

Wheels of change : transforming girls' lives with bicycles

Fiala, Nathan; Garcia-Hernandez, Ana; Narula, Kritika; … - 2022

Reducing the gender gap in education is a primary goal for many countries. Two major challenges for many girls are the distance to school and their safety when commuting to school. In Zambia, we studied the impact of providing a bicycle to a school-going girl who lives more than 3 km from the...

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Wheels of change : transforming girls' lives with bicycles

Fiala, Nathan; Garcia-Hernandez, Ana; Narula, Kritika; … - 2022

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Wheels of change : transforming girls' lives with bicycles

Fiala, Nathan; Garcia-Hernandez, Ana; Narula, Kritika; … - 2022

Reducing the gender gap in education is a primary goal for many countries. Some major challenges for many girls include the distance to school, their safety when commuting to school, lack of agency, and deep-rooted cultural norms. In Zambia, we studied the impact of providing a bicycle to a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013288045