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235 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11934
Labor Market Effects of High School Science Majors in a High STEM Economy
Tarun Jain, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Nishith Prakash, Raghav Rakesh
published as 'Science Education and Labor Market Outcomes in a Developing Economy' in: Economic Inquiry, 2022, 60 (2), 741-763
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11908
Labor Market Effects of High School Science Majors in a High STEM Economy
Tarun Jain, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Nishith Prakash, Raghav Rakesh
updated version published as 'Science education and labor market outcomes in a developing economy' in: Economic Inquiry, 2022, 60 (2), 741 - 763
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11803
Leader Identity and Coordination
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras, Lakshmi Iyer, Joseph Vecci
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (1), 175–189.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11670
Drivers of Student Performance: Evidence from Higher Secondary Public Schools in Delhi
Deepti Goel, Bidisha Barooah
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11660
Gender Segregation in Education and Its Implications for Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from India
Soham Sahoo, Stephan Klasen
revised version published in: Demography, 2021, 58 (3), 987-1010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11596
Women Legislators and Economic Performance
Thushyanthan Baskaran, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Brian Min, Yogesh Uppal
revised version published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2024, 29, 151–214
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11464
Household Savings and Marriage Payments: Evidence from Dowry in India
S Anukriti, Sungoh Kwon, Nishith Prakash
published as 'Saving for dowry: Evidence from rural India' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 154, 102750
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11376
The Puzzles and Contradictions of the Indian Labour Market: What Will the Future of Work Look Like?
Sher Verick
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11360
Gender Norms and the Motherhood Penalty: Experimental Evidence from India
Arjun S. Bedi, Tanmoy Majilla, Matthias Rieger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11319
Measuring Customer Discrimination: Evidence from the Professional Cricket League in India
Pramod Kumar Sur, Masaru Sasaki
publication in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2020, 21(4), 420-448
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11292
Religion and Abortion: The Role of Politician Identity
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras, Lakshmi Iyer
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 53, 102746
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11286
Can Quotas Increase the Supply of Candidates for Higher-Level Positions? Evidence from Local Government in India
Stephen D. O'Connell
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (1), 65–78.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11277
Political Activism as a Determinant of Clientelistic Transfers: Evidence from an Indian Public Works Program
Nancy H. Chau, Yanyan Liu, Vidhya Soundararajan
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 132, 103631
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11263
Closing the Gender Gap in Leadership Positions: Can Expanding the Pipeline Increase Parity?
Ryan Brown, Hani Mansour, Stephen D. O'Connell
published as 'Does local female political representation empower women to run for higher office? Evidence from state and national legislatures in India' in: World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36 (1), 198-218
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11239
Women's Inheritance Rights Reform and the Preference for Sons in India
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Rachel Brulé, Sanchari Roy
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 146 (C), 102275
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11209
Returns to Education and Female Participation Nexus: Evidence from India
Sanghamitra Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Francesco Pastore
published in: Indian Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 61 (3), 515-536.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11174
Are Urban-Rural Welfare Differences Growing in India?
Mehtabul Azam
substantially revised version published as 'Accounting for growing urban-rural welfare gaps in India' in: World Development, 2019, 122, 410-432
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11118
Labor Market Engagement and the Health of Working Adults: Evidence from India
Archana Dang, Pushkar Maitra, Nidhiya Menon
published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2019, 33, 58 - 77
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11086
Employment Transitions of Women in India: A Panel Analysis
Sudipa Sarkar, Soham Sahoo, Stephan Klasen
published in: World Development, 2019, 115, 291-309
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10971
Improving Learning Outcomes through Information Provision: Evidence from Indian Villages
Farzana Afridi, Bidisha Barooah, Rohini Somanathan
edited version published as 'Improving Learning Outcomes through Information Provision: Experimental Evidence from Indian Villages' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 146, 102276
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10902
Skills Training and Employment Outcomes in Rural Bihar
Bhaskar Chakravorty, Arjun S. Bedi
published in: Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2019, 62 (2), 173–199
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10856
Governance and Public Service Delivery in India
Farzana Afridi
also available as: International Growth Centre Synthesis Paper S-35407 - INC-1, 2017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10780
Effect of Political Decentralization and Female Leadership on Institutional Births and Child Mortality in Rural Bihar, India
Santosh Kumar, Nishith Prakash
published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2017, 185, 171-178
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10701
Cognitive, Socioemotional and Behavioral Returns to College Quality
Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal
published as 'Effects of Peers and Rank on Cognition, Preferences, and Personality' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (3), 587 - 601
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10639
Legal Status and Deprivation in India's Urban Slums: An Analysis of Two Decades of National Sample Survey Data
Laura B. Nolan, David E. Bloom, Ramnath Subbaraman
publisehd in: Economic & Political Weekly, 2018, 53
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10612
The Private Schooling Phenomenon in India: A Review
Geeta G. Kingdon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10595
Where's the Teacher? How Teacher Workplace Segregation Impedes Teacher Allocation in India
Sonja Fagernäs, Panu Pelkonen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10416
Excess Mortality, Institutionalization and Homelessness Among Status Indians in Canada
Randall K. Q. Akee, Donn. L. Feir
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10390
Economics of Civil Conflict: Evidence from the Punjab Insurgency
Prakarsh Singh
published in: Journal of Punjab Studies, 2015, 22 (2), 231 - 248
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10308
Household Income Mobility in India: 1993-2011
Mehtabul Azam
revised version published in: Review of Development Economics, 2022, 26 (4), 1902 - 1943
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10294
Looking Back on the Lessons of "Higher Education and Developing Countries: Peril and Promise": Perspectives on China and India
David E. Bloom, Philip G. Altbach, Henry Rosovsky
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10271
On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: New Evidence on Abortion, Fertility, and Parental Investments
S Anukriti, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Hiu Tam
published as 'On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: Fertility, Parental Investments and Mortality' in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (651), 1 - 36
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10199
Barriers to Skill Acquisition: Evidence from English Training in India
Tarun Jain, Pushkar Maitra, Subha Mani
published in: World Development, 2019, 114, 314-325
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10092
Gender Bias in Education during Conflict: Evidence from Assam
Sutanuka Roy, Prakarsh Singh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10085
Learning and Behavioral Spillovers of Nutritional Information
Prakarsh Singh
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (6), 911 - 931
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10048
Searching for Religious Discrimination among Anganwadi Workers in India: An Experimental Investigation
Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Prakarsh Singh
published as 'Searching for religious discrimination among childcare workers' in: Review of Development Economics, 2020, 24 (2), 362 - 382
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9974
Decomposition Analysis of Earnings Inequality in Rural India: 2004-2012
Shantanu Khanna, Deepti Goel, René Morissette
published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2016, 5 (18)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9893
Developments in Undernutrition in Indian Children Under Five: A Decompositional Analysis
Peng Nie, Anu Rammohan, Wencke Gwozdz, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
published as 'Changes in Child Nutrition in India: A Decomposition Approach' in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019, 16 (10), 1815
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9892
Spatial Income Inequality in India, 1993-2011: A District Level Decomposition
Mehtabul Azam, Vipul Bhatt
published in: Social Indicators Research, 2018, 138 (2), 505 - 522
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9808
Absence of Altruism? Female Disadvantage in Private School Enrolment in India
Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal, Anurag Sharma
published in: World Development, 2016, 86, 105–125
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9781
Does Greater Autonomy among Women Provide the Key to Better Child Nutrition?
Wiji Arulampalam, Anjor Bhaskar, Nisha Srivastava
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9765
Eliciting Risk Preferences: Firefighting in the Field
Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma, Saurabh Singhal
published as 'Internal and external validity: Comparing two simple risk elicitation tasks' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2019, 81, 39 - 46
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9722
Why Are Fewer Married Women Joining the Work Force in India? A Decomposition Analysis over Two Decades
Farzana Afridi, Taryn Dinkelman, Kanika Mahajan
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (3), 783-818
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9522
Religious Riots and Electoral Politics in India
Sriya Iyer, Anand Shrivastava
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 131, 104-122
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9518
Intergenerational Educational Persistence among Daughters: Evidence from India
Mehtabul Azam
revised version published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2016, 16 (4), 201601146
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9485
Bad Karma or Discrimination? Male-Female Wage Gaps among Salaried Workers in India
Ashwini Deshpande, Deepti Goel, Shantanu Khanna
published in: World Development, 2018, 102, 331-344
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9357
Income Guarantees and Borrowing in Risky Environments: Evidence from India's Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Clive Bell, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
published in: Economica, 2020, 87 (347), 763-812
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9283
Short-term Migration and Intergenerational Persistence of Industry in Rural India
Tushar Kanti Nandi, Saibal Kar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9177
Christianity and Infant Health in India
Nidhiya Menon, Kathleen McQueeney
published as 'Christianity and girl child health in India' in: World Development, 2020, 136, 105109
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9161
May There Be Victory: Government Election Performance and the World's Largest Public-Works Program
Laura V Zimmermann
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