IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'The impact of educated leaders on economic development: Evidence from India' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2023, 51 (3), 1068-1093

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15270

Lockdown and Rural Joblessness in India: Gender Inequality in Employment?

Nabamita Dutta, Saibal Kar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15259

When Criminality Begets Crime: The Role of Elected Politicians in India

Nishith Prakash, Soham Sahoo, Deepak Saraswat, Reetika Sindhi

published online in: Journal of Law Economics and Organization, 30 August 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15124

Birth Weight and Cognitive Development during Childhood: Evidence from India

Santosh Kumar, Kaushalendra Kumar, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Arindam Nandi

published in: Economic Papers, 2022, 41 (2), 144 - 175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15123

Place-Based Policies and Agglomeration Economies: Firm-Level Evidence from Special Economic Zones in India

Holger Görg, Alina Mulyukova

published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 165, 104752

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15120

Time for Clean Energy? Cleaner Fuels and Women's Time in Home Production

Farzana Afridi, Sisir Debnath, Taryn Dinkelman, Komal Sareen

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2023, 37 (2), 283–304

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15041

Improving Survey Quality Using Paradata: Lessons from the India Working Survey

Deepti Goel, Rosa Abraham, Rahul Lahoti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15002

Updates on Returns to Education in India: Analysis Using PLFS 2018-19 Data

Jie Chen, Sanghamitra Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Francesco Pastore

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14807

Many Rivers to Cross: Social Identity, Cognition and Labour Mobility in Rural India

Sébastien Michiels, Christophe Jalil Nordman, Suneha Seetahul

published in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2021, 697(1), 66 - 80

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14639

Dropping Out, Being Pushed Out or Can’t Get in? Decoding Declining Labour Force Participation of Indian Women

Ashwini Deshpande, Jitendra Singh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14627

Impacts of Double-Fortified Salt on Anemia and Cognition: Four-Year Follow-up Evidence from a School-Based Nutrition Intervention in India

Liza von Grafenstein, Abhijeet Kumar, Santosh Kumar, Sebastian Vollmer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14624

Land Ceiling Legislations, Land Acquisition and De-industrialisation: Theory and Evidence from the Indian States

Sarmistha Pal, Prabal Roy Chowdhury, Zoya Saher

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14566

Multigenerational Mobility in India

Anustup Kundu, Kunal Sen

published as 'Multigenerational Mobility Among Males in India' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2023, 69 (2), 395 - 418

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14522

Measuring Performance: Ranking State Success over Two Decades in India

Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Arka Roy Chaudhuri, Saattvic

published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2022, 83, 101550

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14498

Entitled to Property: Inheritance Laws, Female Bargaining Power, and Child Health in India

Md Shahadath Hossain, Plamen Nikolov

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14305

Biased Teachers and Gender Gap in Learning Outcomes: Evidence from India

Sonali Rakshit, Soham Sahoo

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 161, 103041

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14251

Teacher Shortage in India: Myth or Reality? The Fiscal Cost of Surplus Teachers, Fake Enrolment and Absences

Sandip Datta, Geeta G. Kingdon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14250

Gender, Crime and Punishment: Evidence from Women Police Stations in India

Sofia Amaral, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Nishith Prakash

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14230

Class Size and Learning: Has India Spent Too Much on Reducing Class Size?

Sandip Datta, Geeta G. Kingdon

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2023, 37 (1), 24–48,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14197

Anemia, Diet, and Cognitive Development: Impact of Health Information on Diet Quality and Child Nutrition in Rural India

Marion Krämer, Santosh Kumar, Sebastian Vollmer

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021,190 (C), 495-523

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14173

The Impact of Caste: A Missing Link in the Literature on Stunting in India

Rajesh Ramachandran, Ashwini Deshpande

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14132

Gender Gaps in Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills: Roles of SES and Gender Attitudes

Justine Hervé, Subha Mani, Jere R. Behrman, Arindam Nandi, Anjana Sankhil Lamkang, Ramanan Laxminarayan

published as 'Gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills among adolescents in India' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 193, 66 - 97

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13967

A Breath of Fresh Air: Raising Awareness for Clean Fuel Adoption

Farzana Afridi, Sisir Debnath, E. Somanathan

published in Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 151, 102675

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13960

The Origins of Cognitive Skills and Non-cognitive Skills: The Long-Term Effect of in-Utero Rainfall Shocks in India

Grace Chang, Marta Favara, Rafael Novella

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2022, 44, 101089

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13891

The Gender of Debt and Credit: Insights from Rural Tamil Nadu

Isabelle Guérin, Christophe Jalil Nordman, Elena Reboul

published in: World Development, 2021, 146, 105363

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13881

Mining and Gender Gaps in India

Amanda Guimbeau, Xinde James Ji, Nidhiya Menon, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers

published as 'Mining and women’s agency: Evidence on acceptance of domestic violence and shared decision-making in India' in: World Development, 2023, 162, 106135

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13871

The Effect of Manager Gender and Performance Feedback: Experimental Evidence from India

Martin Abel, Daniel Buchman

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2024, 73 (1), 307–338

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13854

Finance, Gender, and Entrepreneurship: India's Informal Sector Firms

Ira N. Gang, Rajesh Raj Natarajan, Kunal Sen

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2022, 58 (7), 1383-1402

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13847

The Impact of Employment Quotas on the Economic Lives of Disadvantaged Minorities in India

Nishith Prakash

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 180, 494-509

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13815

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Gendered Division of Paid and Unpaid Work: Evidence from India

Ashwini Deshpande

published in: Economia Politica, 2022, 39, 75 - 100

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13760

The Crisis and Job Guarantees in Urban India

Swati Dhingra, Stephen Machin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13711

The Ties That Bind Us: Social Networks and Productivity in the Factory

Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Swati Sharma

published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2024, 228, 470 - 485

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13694

Protecting Girls from Droughts with Social Safety Nets

Jagori Chatterjee, Joshua D. Merfeld

published in: World Development, 2021, 147, 105624

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13550

Occupational Dualism and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in the Rural Economy: Evidence from China and India

M. Shahe Emran, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Yajing Jiang, Yan Sun

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023, 21, 743 - 773

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13522

Impact of Pollution from Coal on the Anemic Status of Children and Women: Evidence from India

Gaurav Datt, Pushkar Maitra, Nidhiya Menon, Ranjan Ray, Sagnik Dey, Sourangsu Chowdhury

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13515

Social Identity, Behavior, and Personality: Evidence from India

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2023, 59 (4), 472 - 489

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13476

Enfranchisement, Political Participation and Political Competition: Evidence from Colonial India

Guilhem Cassan, Lakshmi Iyer, Rinchan Ali Mirza

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13444

Does BMI Predict the Early Spatial Variation and Intensity of COVID-19 in Developing Countries? Evidence from India

Nidhiya Menon

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2021, 41, 100990

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13405

Here Comes the Rain Again: Productivity Shocks, Educational Investments and Child Work

Christophe Jalil Nordman, Smriti Sharma, Naveen Sunder

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2022, 70 (3), 1041 - 1063

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13295

Cooking Fuel Choice, Indoor Air Quality and Child Mortality in India

Arnab K. Basu, Tsenguunjav Byambasuren, Nancy H. Chau, Neha Khanna

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 222, 240-265

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13215

Welfare Dynamics in India over a Quarter Century: Poverty, Vulnerability, and Mobility during 1987-2012

Hai-Anh H Dang, Peter F. Lanjouw

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13150

The Determinants of Trust: Evidence from Rural South India

Anne Hilger, Christophe Jalil Nordman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12838

The Health Costs of Coal-Fired Power Plants in India

Geoffrey Barrows, Teevrat Garg, Akshaya Jha

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12682

Household Cooking Fuel Choice in India, 2004-2012: A Panel Multinomial Analysis

Ying-Min Kuo, Mehtabul Azam

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12681

Accounting for Differences in Female Labor Force Participation between China and India

Mehtabul Azam, Luyi Han

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2020, 20(2), 20190302

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12671

Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation of Education in India: Has It Fallen over Time?

Sandip Datta, Geeta G. Kingdon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12666

What Determines Women's Labor Supply? The Role of Home Productivity and Social Norms

Farzana Afridi, Monisankar Bishnu, Kanika Mahajan

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2024, 90 (1), 55 - 87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12627

Hunger and Performance in the Classroom

Farzana Afridi, Bidisha Barooah, Rohini Somanathan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12538

Those Who Can't Sort, Steal: Caste, Occupational Mobility, and Rent-Seeking in Rural India

Nicholas Lawson, Dean Spears

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2021, 87 (1), 107–140.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12505

Measuring Economic Mobility in India Using Noisy Data: A Partial Identification Approach

Hao Li, Daniel L. Millimet, Punarjit Roychowdhury

published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2023, 186 (1), 84-109

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12289

Birth Order, Fertility, and Child Height in India and Africa

Dean Spears, Diane Coffey, Jere R. Behrman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12288

Neonatal Death in India: Birth Order in a Context of Maternal Undernutrition

Diane Coffey, Dean Spears

published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (638), 2478 - 2507

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12131

Employment Discrimination against Indigenous Peoples in the United States: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Patrick Button, Brigham Walker

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101851.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12095

Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor: The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment

Michael A. Clemens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12065

Changes in Open Defecation in Rural North India: 2014-2018

Aashish Gupta, Nazar Khalid, Devashish Desphande, Payal Hathi, Avani Kapur, Nikhil Srivastav, Sangita Vyas, Dean Spears, Diane Coffey

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12016

Touch Thee Not: Group Conflict, Caste Power, and Untouchability in Rural India

Indraneel Dasgupta, Sarmistha Pal

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021, 49 (2), 442-466

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11942

Leveraging Patients' Social Networks to Overcome Tuberculosis Underdetection: A Field Experiment in India

Jessica Goldberg, Mario Macis, Pradeep Chintagunta

published as 'Incentivized Peer Referrals for Tuberculosis Screening: Evidence from India' in: American Economic Review: Applied Economics, 2023, 15 (1), 259 - 291

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