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0000-0003-2694-6702
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University of Florida
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Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 04-01-2022
Abstract: This study estimates poverty, wealth inequality, and financial inclusion, for the first time, at the sub-caste level in both Hindus and Muslims using a unique survey data collected from 7124 households in Uttar Pradesh, India, during 2014-2015. The results confirm the existing hypothesis that Brahmins, Thakurs, and other Hindu general castes have higher wealth accumulation, lower poverty, and lesser exclusion from formal financial services than Dalits. Exclusion from formal financial services forces Dalits to depend primarily on informal financial sources for borrowing—which leads to financial misfortune and further dragging them into a vicious cycle of poverty.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 17-02-2022
DOI: 10.1002/JID.3626
Abstract: This study estimates poverty, wealth inequality and financial inclusion, for the first time, at the sub‐caste level in both Hindus and Muslims using a unique survey data collected from 7124 households in Uttar Pradesh, India, during 2014–2015. The results confirm the existing hypothesis that Brahmins, Thakurs and other Hindu general castes have higher wealth accumulation, lower poverty and lesser exclusion from formal financial services than Dalits. Exclusion from formal financial services forces Dalits to depend primarily on informal financial sources for borrowing—which leads to financial misfortune and further dragging them into a vicious cycle of poverty.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 30-03-2023
DOI: 10.1017/S1744133123000026
Abstract: Given change in the universal developmental agenda and the quality of governance in the last two decades, this paper re-examines the relationship between governance, health expenditure and maternal mortality using panel data for 184 countries from 1996 to 2019. By employing the ‘dynamic panel data regression model’, the study reveals that a one-point improvement in the governance index decreases maternal mortality by 10–21%. We also find that good governance can better translate health expenditure into improved maternal health outcomes through effective allocation and equitable distribution of available resources. These results are robust to alternative instruments, alternative dependent variables (such as infant mortality rate and life expectancy), estimation by different governance dimensions and at the sub-national level. Additional findings using ‘Quantile regression’ estimates show that the quality of governance matters more than the health expenditure in countries with a higher level of maternal mortality. While the ‘Path regression’ analysis exhibits the specific direct and indirect mechanisms through which the causal inference operates between governance and maternal mortality.
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 06-09-2021
Abstract: We use nationally representative data from two waves of the Indian Human Development Surveyto provide causal evidence on the role of inter-temporal changes in fertility behaviour ininfluencing female labor market outcomes. Our multivariate regression estimates show that anincrease in the number of children reduces labor force participation and earnings. We furtherinvestigated the impact of fertility changes on transitions from the labor market. The results showthat women who had more than three children in both rounds of the survey had a 3.5 percentagepoints higher probability of exiting from the labor market. Disaggregated analyses by caste,economic status and region show regional heterogeneity, and the probability of dropping-out ofthe labor market due to fertility changes is greater for non-poor women and those from sociallydisadvantaged castes.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-07-2022
DOI: 10.1007/S11113-022-09730-6
Abstract: We use nationally representative data from two waves of the Indian Human Development Survey to examine the role of inter-temporal changes in fertility behavior in influencing female labor market outcomes. Our multivariate regression estimates show that an increase in the number of children reduces labor force participation and earnings. We further investigated the impact of fertility changes on transitions from the labor market. The results show that women who had more than three children in both rounds of the survey had a 3.5% points higher probability of exiting from the labor market than their counterparts with two or fewer children net of other socio-demographic factors. Disaggregated analyses by caste, economic, educational status, and region show that the probability of dropping out of the labor market due to fertility changes varies by region and is greater for non-poor and primary to secondary schooling women and those from socially disadvantaged castes than poor, non-educated, and socially advantageous women.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2017
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