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Publication - Policy Brief
Using online job portals to track the real-time impacts of COVID-19 in India
A real-time assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on the economy (and labour markets in particular) has been an important policy challenge, especially in low-income countries like India. We leverage real-time, high-frequency data on over 300,000 job postings from Shine.com, India’s second largest online job portal, to investigate the impact of lockdowns on the...
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Publication - Policy Brief
How can Skill India improve outcomes for female trainees?
Skill India is a government programme which includes an initiative aimed at training and linking young women to employment opportunities. Not only are female participants of the programme less likely to accept a job offer than a male counterpart, but they are even less likely to accept one that involves some form of migration. This brief uses existing data to...
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Publication - Working Paper
Judges, lenders, and the bottom line: Court-ing economic growth in India
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Publication - Project Report
Does micro-irrigation save energy? An investigation in Gujarat, India
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Publication - Working Paper
Taxation and supplier networks: Evidence from India
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Publication - Working Paper
Production and evasion responses with limited state capacity: Evidence from major tax reforms in India
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Data: Foreign investors under stress: Evidence at the firm level
Emerging market policy makers have been concerned about the financial stability implications of financial globalization. These concerns are focused particularly on behavior under stressed conditions. Do tail events in the home country trigger off extreme responses by foreign investors and is there any asymmetry between the responses of foreign investors to very good versus...
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Publication - Working Paper
The Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic dataset on India (SHRUG)
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Publication - Working Paper
Tender competitiveness and project performance in India’s PMGSY scheme
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Publication - Working Paper
Detecting urban markets with satellite imagery: An application to India