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  Why the firstborn is more likely to succeed in life

  Seema Jayachandran, Rohini Pande

  Physical height is an important economic variable reflecting health and human capital. Puzzlingly, however, differences in average height across developing countries are not...

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  “Inequality harms cooperative efforts. In India...

  Pranab Bardhan

  Professor Pranab Bardhan recently visited LSE’s Economic History Department to speak about research gaps in the interface between history and development. While he was on...

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  Ideas for India: Charting a course for the Indian...

  Karthik Muralidharan, Arvind Subramanian

  At the recent Ideas for India event in New Delhi, Karthik Muralidharan (Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego) sat down with Arvind Subramanian...

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  Choice and cost: The role of household decision...

  Rukmini Banerji, Wilima Wadhwa

  For a variety of reasons, Bihar is one of the most interesting states in India to understand educational choices.  Given the national push for universalising secondary...

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  MNREGA: Populist leaky bucket or anti-poverty success?

  Dilip Mookherjee

  The world’s largest workfare programme – MNREGA – formed the backbone of the Indian United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s anti-poverty programme, and may well...

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  Can workfare programmes moderate violence?

  Thiemo Fetzer

  It is common in developing countries for income shocks to trigger spurts of violence. Important findings suggest that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s Rural...

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  Delhi School of Economics

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