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Using machine learning and qualitative interviews to design a five-question women's agency index

Jayachandran, Seema; Biradavolu, Monica R.; Cooper, Jan - 2021

We propose a new method to design a short survey measure of a complex concept such as women's agency. The approach … combines mixed-methods data collection and machine learning. We select the best survey questions based on how strongly … candidate questions. This approach of selecting survey questions based on their statistical correspondence to coded qualitative …

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Improving survey quality using paradata : lessons from the India Working Survey

Goel, Deepti; Abraham, Rosa; Lahoti, Rahul - 2022

household survey in India. Our method identifies enumerators exhibiting deviant field practices, and provides them feedback to … that exist within our survey. We also present evidence that our method succeeded in changing actual enumerator behavior in … recommendations to help make more informed choices. We hope our work will encourage the use of paradata to improve survey quality …

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Entitled to property: inheritance laws, female bargaining power, and child health in India

Hossain, Md Shahadath; Nikolov, Plamen - 2021

Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the effects of an inheritance law change, the Hindu...

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Looking back on the lessons of "higher education and developing countries: peril and promise" : perspectives on China and India

Bloom, David E.; Altbach, Philip G.; Rosovsky, Henry - 2016

In 2000, Higher Education in Developing Countries: Peril and Promise was published. This report, cosponsored by The World Bank and UNESCO, came at a time of transition in higher education worldwide and helped shape higher education policy and thinking in several developing countries. This...

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Entitled to property : how breaking the gender barrier improves child health in India

Hossain, Shahadat Md.; Nikolov, Plamen - 2023

Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial determinant of human capital and economic standing throughout adulthood. We examine the effects of a policy shift, the Hindu Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted...

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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship

Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012

The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...

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Caste, courts and business

Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban; Saha, Sarani; … - 2022

representative MSME survey data. Empirically, we treat entrepreneurs from disadvantaged castes (SC-ST) as those without traditional …

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Finance, gender, and entrepreneurship: India's informal sector firms

Gang, Ira N.; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2020

what directions? We take advantage of nationwide data collected in 2010/11 and 2015/16 by India's National Sample Survey …

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Drought of opportunities : contemporaneous and long-term impacts of rainfall shocks on human capital

Shah, Manisha; Steinberg, Bryce Millett - 2015

Higher wages are generally thought to increase human capital production, particularly in the developing world. We introduce a simple model of human capital production in which investments and time allocation differ by age. Using data on test scores and schooling from rural India, we show that...

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Do family planning programmes help women's employment? : The case of Indian mothers

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia (contributor); … - 2007

labour market. A unique, rich and representative data survey for all Indian states and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998-1999) allows …

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