Search Results - "Rao, Vijayendra"

Who has voice in a deliberative democracy? Evidence from transcripts of village parliaments in south India by Ban, Radu, Jha, Saumitra, Rao, Vijayendra

“…The role of deliberation among citizens to determine and forge agreement on policy is often seen as a crucial feature of democratic government. This paper…”
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THE POLITICS OF PUBLIC GOOD PROVISION: EVIDENCE FROM INDIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS by Besley, Timothy, Pande, Rohini, Rahman, Lupin, Rao, Vijayendra

“…This paper uses village and household survey data from South India to examine how political geography and politician identity impacts on public good provision…”
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Wedding Celebrations as Conspicuous Consumption: Signaling Social Status in Rural India by Bloch, Francis, Rao, Vijayendra, Desai, Sonalde

“…We examine the determinants of expenditures on wedding celebrations by rural Indian families. We develop a status signaling model of wedding celebrations where…”
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PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY IN ACTION: SURVEY EVIDENCE FROM SOUTH INDIA by Besley, Timothy, Pande, Rohini, Rao, Vijayendra

“…We use household and village survey data from South India to examine who participates in village meetings called by elected local governments, and what effect…”
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Sex workers and the cost of safe sex: the compensating differential for condom use among Calcutta prostitutes by Rao, Vijayendra, Gupta, Indrani, Lokshin, Michael, Jana, Smarajit

“…Anecdotal evidence suggests that sex workers who use condoms face large income losses because clients have a preference for condom-free sex. This has important…”
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Evidence-based development needs a diversity of tools, with a bottom-up process of “embedded” dialogue by Rao, Vijayendra

“…Along with the rest of Economics, Development Economics has been changed for the better by the “credibility revolution” (Angrist & Pischke, 2010). Twenty years…”
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The Rising Price of Husbands: A Hedonic Analysis of Dowry Increases in Rural India by Rao, Vijayendra

“…Dowries in South Asia have steadily risen over the last 40 years and now often amount to over 50 percent of a household's assets. This paper attempts to…”
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Process-Policy & Outcome-Policy: Rethinking How to Address Poverty & Inequality by Rao, Vijayendra

“…Process matters not just for diagnosing the causes of inequality, but also for how policy is shaped. The dominant paradigms for policy-making–neoliberalism,…”
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The Anatomy of Failure: An Ethnography of a Randomized Trial to Deepen Democracy in Rural India by Rao, Vijayendra, Ananthpur, Kripa, Malik, Kabir

“…•Mixed-methods randomized trial of a citizenship participation program in rural India.•Quantitative data show no impact from the intervention.•Qualitative data…”
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Who Should Be at the Top of Bottom-Up Development? A Case-Study of the National Rural Livelihoods Mission in Rajasthan, India by Joshi, Shareen, Rao, Vijayendra

“…It is widely acknowledged that top-down support is essential for bottom-up participatory projects to be effectively implemented at scale. However, which level…”
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Culture and Public Action by Rao, Vijayendra, Walton, Michael

“…How does culture matter for development? Do certain societies have cultures which condemn them to poverty? Led by Arjun Appadurai, Mary Douglas, and Amartya…”
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Relief from usury: Impact of a self-help group lending program in rural India by Hoffmann, Vivian, Rao, Vijayendra, Surendra, Vaishnavi, Datta, Upamanyu

“…Provision of low-cost credit to the poor through self-help groups (SHGs) has been embraced as a key poverty-reduction strategy in developing countries, but…”
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Dignity through Discourse: Poverty and the Culture of Deliberation in Indian Village Democracies by RAO, VIJAYENDRA, SANYAL, PAROMITA

“…Employing a view of culture as a communicative phenomenon involving discursive engagement, the authors argue that the struggle to break free of poverty is as…”
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Unheard voices: The challenge of inducing women’s civic speech by Palaniswamy, Nethra, Parthasarathy, Ramya, Rao, Vijayendra

“…•Text-as-data methods to test if policy can reduce gendered equality in deliberation.•Women's groups can boost civic engagement via access to social and…”
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Just Rewards? Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India by Besley, Timothy, Pande, Rohini, Rao, Vijayendra

“…What factors determine the nature of political opportunism in local government in South India? To answer this question, we study two types of policy decisions…”
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Safety nets and natural disaster mitigation: evidence from cyclone Phailin in Odisha by Christian, Paul, Kandpal, Eeshani, Palaniswamy, Nethra, Rao, Vijayendra

“…The global incidence of very intense cyclones has increased in recent decades with climate projections signaling that this trend will intensify. To what degree…”
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Terror as a Bargaining Instrument: A Case Study of Dowry Violence in Rural India by Bloch, Francis, Rao, Vijayendra

“…Ethnographic information on the behaviors underlying dowry-related violence culled from open-ended interviews conducted in 3 villages in rural South India is…”
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Can Participation Be Induced? Some Evidence from Developing Countries by Mansuri, Ghazala, Rao, Vijayendra

“…Influenced by Amartya Sen, over the last decade, The World Bank has allocated nearly US$80 billion to local participatory development projects targeting…”
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Money versus Kudos: The impact of incentivizing local politicians in India by Mansuri, Ghazala, Palaniswamy, Nethra, Rao, Vijayendra, Shrestha, Slesh A.

“…•Elected village presidents were incentivized with financial or nonfinancial rewards.•Both incentives improved performance on multiple program…”
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Long-run impacts of land regulation: Evidence from tenancy reform in India by Besley, Timothy, Leight, Jessica, Pande, Rohini, Rao, Vijayendra

“…Agricultural tenancy reforms have been widely enacted, but evidence on their long-run impact remains limited. In this paper, we provide such evidence by…”
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