Browsing Working Papers by Author "Narayanan, Sudha"

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Child Work and Schooling in rural north India : What do time use data say about tradeoffs and drivers of human capital investment?

Narayanan, Sudha; Dhanraj, Sowmya (2013-11)

This study examines time use data for 1244 children in the age-group 6-12 years in 274 villages in eight states in rural north India to understand the tradeoffs between time spent in school, time spent at work, time spent ...
Choosing private schools: Examining primary school enrollment decisions in rural North India

Narayanan, Sudha (2013-12)

This study examines primary school choice in seven states in rural north India, using data from a survey of schools and 1586 households in 274 villages. The analysis emphasizes the role of choice sets faced by rural ...
Employment guarantee for women in India evidence on participation and rationing in the MGNREGA from the National sample survey

Narayanan, Sudha; Das, Upasak (2014-06)

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which guarantees employment of every rural household for 100 days, has different progressive provisions which incentivise higher participation of women ...
The Heterogeneous welfare impacts of participation in contract farming schemes: Evidence from Southern India

Narayanan, Sudha (2012-09)

Assessing the extent of welfare gains from participation in contract farming arrangements is important to be able to make a case for promoting contract farming as a way for smallholders to capitalize on the opportunities ...
In the balance The National Food Security Act vis-Ã -vis the WTO agreement on agriculture

Narayanan, Sudha (2013-12)

This piece analyzes the implications of the National Food Security Act for India's commitments under the WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) in the context of widespread concern that they might be mutually incompatible. An ...
MGNREGA works and their impacts: A Rapid assessment in Maharashtra

Narayanan, Sudha; Ranaware, Krushna; Das, Upasak; Kulkarni, Ashwini (2014-10)

This paper presents the results of a survey of over 4100 works created under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and over 4800 randomly selected users across 100 villages in 20 districts ...
Notional Contracts: The Moral economy of contract farming arrangements in India

Narayanan, Sudha (2012-09)

This study examines the moral economy of firm-farmer contracts in contract farming schemes in India, bringing together data from field surveys, conducted between 2007 and 2010, of 42 agribusinesses and 484 contract farmers ...
The Political economy of MGNREGS spending in Andhra Pradesh

Sheahan, Megan; Liu, Yanyan; Barrett, Christopher B; Narayanan, Sudha (2014-07)

Are ostensibly demand-driven public programs less susceptible to political clientelism even when private goods are allocated? We investigate this conjecture using expenditure data at the local level from India's National ...
The Productivity of agricultural credit in India

Narayanan, Sudha (2015-01)

This study examines the nature of the relationship between formal agricultural credit and agricultural GDP in India, specifically the role of the former in supporting agricultural growth, using state level panel data ...
Safe Gambles? Farmer perceptions of transactional certainty and risk-return tradeoffs in contract farming schemes in Southern India

Narayanan, Sudha (2012-09)

This paper examines the idea that contract farming arrangements in developing countries even while offering farmers insurance against certain kinds of risks could simultaneously exacerbate other risks or entail new risks ...

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