Based on national-level panel data from Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE)’s Consumer Pyramids Household Survey (CPHS) database, this paper investigates the first effects of Covid-19 induced...
On 09 Jun 2020 How persistent are traditional socioeconomic hierarchies in the face of marketization, significant structural shifts in the economy, and increased political representation of lower-ranked groups, and...
On 15 Dec 2016 The paper presents the first rigorous evidence of the effectiveness of a
computer-based adult literacy program. A randomized control trial study of TARA Akshar Plus, an Indian adult literacy program,...
On 26 May 2016 Using the 2004-05 India Human Development Survey data, The paper aims to estimate and decompose the earnings of household businesses owned by historically marginalized social groups known as Scheduled...
On 24 Sep 2015 This paper analyses the issue of gender parity in wages by focusing on the evolution of male-female wage gaps for an emerging economy, India, and decomposes the gaps to understand patterns of gender-b...
On 29 May 2015 Using the India Human Development Survey data for 2004-05,
two methodologies are used to estimate the earnings structure
of household nonfarm businesses owned by Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SCSTs)...
On 20 Mar 2014 Using the India Human Development Survey data for 2004-05, two methodologies are employed to estimate the earnings structure
of household nonfarm businesses owned by Scheduled Castes and
Tribes (SCS...
On 17 Feb 2014 Using individual-level data from the National
Sample Survey for 1999-2000 and 2009-2010, theur paper has done an empirical assessments of
their socio-economic condition of OBCs, SC-STs. [CDE Working...
On 05 Aug 2013 Unit-level data from the registered manufacturing segment of the Third and Fourth rounds of the Indian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) census data for 2001-2 and 2006-7 is used to understan...
On 08 Apr 2013 Earlier studies have documented an “identifiable victim effect”: people donate more to help individual people than to groups. Evidence suggests that this is in part due to an emotional reaction to the...
On 03 Feb 2012 The objective in this paper is to shed some empirical light on a claim often made by critics of affirmative action policies: that increasing the representation of members of marginalized communities i...
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