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We exploit the variation in admission cutoffs across colleges at a leading Indian university to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on cognitive attainment, economic preferences, and Big Five personality traits. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that...
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Income inequalities and redistribution in China
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– Data collection and the impact on income inequality
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Income inequalities and redistribution in China
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Income inequalities and redistribution in China
Journal Article
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– A comparative approach with India
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Income inequalities and redistribution in China
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– 1988-2013
Part of Journal Special Issue
Income inequalities and redistribution in China
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Income inequalities and redistribution in China
Journal Article
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– 1990–2015
This article is currently available on early view. The paper studies the decline of the labor income share (LIS) in Mexico during the period 1990–2015. The decline is mostly explained by reductions within the economy’s major sectors (including manufacturing, tradables, and non-tradables) rather than...
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Aid for Gender Equality and Development
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– A Panel Analysis of Aid for Education
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Aid for Gender Equality and Development
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– Gender Inequality and the Allocation of Aid
We investigate whether donors give more aid to countries with larger gender gaps in education, health, or women’s rights, and whether they reward improvements in those indicators. We find some evidence that high gender gaps in education and health are associated with higher allocation of aid in...
– A Micro-simulation
This paper investigates the impact of social transfer programmes on school enrolment and child labour in Malawi utilizing a micro-simulation evaluation method. For this purpose, we simulate four hypothetical scenarios in which a household receives: (1) MK1,040 (US$2.5) for each child enrolled in...
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