Browsing by Author "Pande, Rohini"

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    • Building Social Capital Through Microfinance 

      Feigenberg, Benjamin; Field, Erica Marie; Pande, Rohini (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
      A number of development assistance programs promote community interaction as a means of building social capital. Yet, despite strong theoretical underpinnings, the role of repeat interactions in sustaining cooperation has ...

    • Building Social Capital Through Microfinance 

      Feigenberg, Benjamin; Field, Erica M.; Pande, Rohini (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2010-10)
      A number of development assistance programs promote community interaction as a means of building social capital. Yet, despite strong theoretical underpinnings, the role of repeat interactions in sustaining cooperation has ...

    • Essays at the Intersection of Environment and Development Economics 

      Walker, Elizabeth Ruth (2015-05-11)
      The three essays in this dissertation explore how households in Southern Africa interact with and rely upon environmental resources. The first chapter examines the relationship between irrigation dam placement and local ...

    • Essays in Economic Development and Political Economy 

      Neggers, Yusuf (2016-05-17)
      The three chapters in this dissertation examine aspects of the relationships between transparency, government accountability, and the quality of public services. In the first chapter, I ask how ethnic diversity, or lack ...

    • Essays in the Political Economy of Conflict and Development 

      Acevedo, Maria Cecilia (2015-05-19)
      This dissertation seeks to identify causes and consequences of some of the most complex social phenomena, such as civil conflict and climate change. In the first essay I draw on existing theories of labor coercion (Acemoglu ...

    • Essays on Development Economics 

      Islam, Mahnaz (2015-05-18)
      This dissertation studies agricultural technology adoption, child labor and development. Although adoption of fertilizers has been high in South Asia, farmers may fail to use it efficiently. Besides higher costs incurred ...

    • Essays on Gender, Intra-Household Allocation and Development 

      Sivasankaran, Anitha (2014-06-06)
      This dissertation studies gender, intra-household allocation and development. Industrialization and globalization has expanded opportunities for women in developing countries to work in manufacturing and service sector ...

    • Essays on the Economics of Household Water Access in Developing Countries 

      Meeks, Robyn (2013-02-13)
      This dissertation focuses on the economics of household water access in developing countries. The first paper explores whether improvements in water technology enable changes in household time allocation and, thereby, ...

    • Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption 

      Banerjee, Abhijit; Pande, Rohini (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2007-07)
      This paper examines how increased voter ethnicization, defined as a greater preference for the party representing one's ethnic group, affects politician quality. If politics is characterized by incomplete policy commitment, ...

    • Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias? 

      Beaman, Lori; Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra; Duflo, Esther; Pande, Rohini; Topalova, Petia (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-07)
      We exploit random assignment of gender quotas across Indian village councils to investigate whether having a female chief councillor affects public opinion towards female leaders. Villagers who have never been required to ...

    • Truth-telling by Third-party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms: Experimental Evidence from India 

      Duflo, Esther; Greenstone, Michael; Pande, Rohini; Ryan, Nicholas (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2013-05)
      In many regulated markets, private, third-party auditors are chosen and paid by the firms that they audit, potentially creating a conflict of interest. This paper reports on a two year field experiment in the Indian state ...

    • Understanding Political Corruption in Low Income Countries 

      Pande, Rohini (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2007-04)
      Building on the large and growing empirical literature on the political behavior of individuals in low income countries this chapter seeks to understand corruption through the lens of political economy -- particularly in ...

    • Why Are Indian Children So Short? 

      Jayachandran, Seema; Pande, Rohini (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2015-04)
      India's child stunting rate is among the highest in the world, exceeding that of many poorer African countries. In this paper, we analyze data for over 174,000 Indian and Sub-Saharan African children to show that Indian ...

    • Women and Work in India: Descriptive Evidence and a Review of Potential Policies 

      Fletcher, Erin K.; Pande, Rohini; Troyer-Moore, Charity (2017-12)
      Sustained high economic growth since the early 1990s has brought significant change to the lives of Indian women, and yet female labor force participation has stagnated at under 30%, and recent labor surveys even suggest ...