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235 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17954
Contraceptive Concordance
Sarah Vincent, Catalina Herrera-Almanza, S Anukriti, Mahesh Karra
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17842
The Landscape of Self-Employment in India: Trends, Constraints and Policy Prescriptions
Farzana Afridi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17775
Connectivity and Rural Development: Examining India’s Rural Road Construction Scheme
Santosh Kumar, Monica Shandal, Ariel Zucker
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17684
Cycles of Malnutrition: Intergenerational Health Transmission in India
Santosh Kumar, Timothy J. Halliday, Bhash Mazumder
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17647
Intergenerational Mobility in Depression and Anxiety in India
Justine Hervé, Subha Mani, Jere R. Behrman, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Arindam Nandi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17530
Pensions and Depression: Gender-Disaggregated Evidence from the Elderly Poor in India
Amanda Guimbeau, Nidhiya Menon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17527
The Political Economy of Privatization of Education: Role of Local Politicians in India
Muneer Kalliyil, Soham Sahoo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17508
Sorting It Out: Contribution-Action Gap in Waste Segregation in Urban India
Ahana Basistha, Nishith Prakash, Raisa Sherif
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17428
Liberalisation, Concentration and Diversification: Business Groups in India, 2000-2020
Simon Commander, Saul Estrin, Naveen Thomas, Varun Lingineni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17404
Does Restricting Access to Credit Affect Learning Outcomes? Evidence from a Regulatory Shock to Microfinance in India
Muneer Kalliyil, Soham Sahoo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17383
Within-Group Inequality and Caste-Based Crimes in India
Kanishka Bhowmick, Indraneel Dasgupta, Sarmistha Pal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17368
The Demand-Side Story: Structural Change and the Decline in Female Labour Force Participation in India
Ashwini Deshpande, Jitendra Singh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17250
The Cultural Role of Rice Cultivation in Female Workforce Participation in India
Gautam Hazarika
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17105
ICT Skills and Labor Market Outcomes in India: Evidence from Cell Tower Expansion
Mehtabul Azam, M. Shahe Emran, Forhad Shilpi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17083
The Effects of Childhood Immunization Program on Health and Education: Micro-Evidence from India
Santosh Kumar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17053
The Importance of Being Local? Administrative Decentralization and Human Development
Latika Chaudhary, Lakshmi Iyer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17051
The Colonial Legacy in India: How Persistent Are the Effects of Historical Institutions?
Lakshmi Iyer, Coleson Weir
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17037
Crime and Human Capital in India
Smriti Sharma, Naveen Sunder
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16909
Food Coma Is Real: The Effect of Digestive Fatigue on Adolescents' Cognitive Performance
Justine Hervé, Subha Mani, Jere R. Behrman, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Arindam Nandi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16891
Can Crises Affect Citizen Activism? Evidence from a Pandemic
Farzana Afridi, Ahana Basistha, Amrita Dhillon, Danila Serra
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16863
Still Waters Run Deep: Groundwater Contamination and Education Outcomes in India
Khushboo Aggarwal, Rashmi Barua, Marian Vidal-Fernandez
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 100, 102525
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16639
Can Effective Policy Implementation Alter Political Selection? Evidence from Female Legislators in India
S Anukriti, Rossella Calvi, Abhishek Chakravarty
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16601
Barriers or Catalysts? Traditional Institutions and Social Mobility in Rural India
Vegard Iversen, Anustup Kundu, Rahul Lahoti, Kunal Sen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16600
Minimum Wages and Changing Wage Inequality in India
Saloni Khurana, Kanika Mahajan, Kunal Sen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16552
Air Pollution and Time Use: Evidence from India
Jafar Jafarov, Tejendra P. Singh, Soham Sahoo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16484
Does Economic Freedom Moderate Perceived Corruption for Firms in India?
Nabamita Dutta, Saibal Kar, Adam Stivers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16316
Air Pollution and Agricultural Productivity in a Developing Country
Joshua D. Merfeld
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16193
Entitled to Property: How Breaking the Gender Barrier Improves Child Health in India
Md Shahadath Hossain, Plamen Nikolov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16135
Marriage Markets and the Rise of Dowry in India
Gaurav Chiplunkar, Jeffrey Weaver
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 164, 103115
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15948
Women's Work, Social Norms and the Marriage Market
Farzana Afridi, Abhishek Arora, Diva Dhar, Kanika Mahajan
forthcoming in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15938
Intergenerational Persistence of Health: Evidence from India
Santosh Kumar, Bernard Nahlen
published in: Economics Letters, 2023, 224, ^p111023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15842
Does Access to Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Reduce Women Household Burden? Evidence from India
Qinghe Su, Mehtabul Azam
published in: Energy Economics, 2023, 119, 106529
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15838
Estimating the Effects of Expanding Ultrasound Use on Sex Selection in India
Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Daniel Rosenblum
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2023, 59 (4), 516-532
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15825
Human Capital and Self-Employment in India: An Empirical Analysis for Different Cohorts
Nabamita Dutta, Saibal Kar, Shaswata Ray
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15822
The Gendered Crisis: Livelihoods and Mental Well-Being in India during COVID-19
Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Sanchari Roy
published in: Feminist Economics, 2023, 29 (3), 40–74.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15778
Counting Missing Women – A Reconciliation of the 'Flow Measure' and the 'Stock Measure'
Cara Ebert, Stephan Klasen, Sebastian Vollmer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15508
Childhood Vaccinations and Demographic Transition: Long-Term Evidence from India
Arindam Nandi, Amit Summan, D. Thoai Ngô, David E. Bloom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15410
Rise of the Indian Middle Class and Its Impact on the Labor Market
Andres Eggimann, Michael Jan Kendzia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15395
Women's Political Representation and Intimate Partner Violence
S Anukriti, Bilge Erten, Priya Mukherjee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15394
Has Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation of Education in Rural India Fallen over Time? A Comparison of 1995 and 2017
Sandip Datta, Geeta G. Kingdon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15387
Inequality in Internet Access in India: Implications for Learning during COVID
Sandip Datta, Geeta G. Kingdon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15381
Bring a Friend: Strengthening Women's Social Networks and Reproductive Autonomy in India
S Anukriti, Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Mahesh Karra
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15368
A Shot at Economic Prosperity: Long-Term Effects of India's Childhood Immunization Program on Earnings and Consumption Expenditure
Amit Summan, Arindam Nandi, David E. Bloom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15278
Do Educated Leaders Affect Economic Development? Evidence from India
Chandan Jain, Shagun Kashyap, Rahul Lahoti, Soham Sahoo
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
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