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Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes
Fisman, Raymond - 2012
We present evidence that shared codes, religious beliefs, ethnicity - cultural proximity - between lenders and … religion and caste of bank officers and borrowers from a bank in India, and a rotation policy that induces exogenous matching …
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Suicide and Property Rights in India
Anderson, Siwan - 2014
conjecture that increasing female property rights increased conflict within household and this increased conflict resulted in … with asymmetric information and costly conflict is consistent with these findings …
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Caste, Kinship and Sex Ratios in India
Chakraborty, Tanika - 2008
century. Since kinship rules varied by caste, language, religion and region, we construct sex-ratios by these categories at …
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Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes : Evidence from India
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2013
correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation …
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How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption
Atkin, David - 2019
group salience, with the latter proxied by inter-group conflict. Moreover, identity choices respond to the cost of following …
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Are Resettled Oustees from the Sardar Sarovar Dam Project Better off Today than their Former Neighbors who were not Ousted?
Aiyar, Swaminathan S. Anklesaria - 2018
The Sardar Sarovar Dam in Gujarat is arguably the most controversial dam ever built in India, with over a 100,000 displaced people. Most ousted families in Gujarat were resettled in the late 1980s and early 1990s. All oustees were tribals--a term used in India to cover a list of tribes viewed as...
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Diasporas and Outsourcing : Evidence from oDesk and India
Ghani, Ejaz - 2012
This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic...
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