Hari K Nagarajan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6456981 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hari K Nagarajan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hari K |
| FAMILY NAME | Nagarajan |
| SIGNATURE | NAGARAJAN H K |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Council of Applied Economic Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Addressing Declining Female Labor Force Participation in India
Despite income growth, fertility decline, and educational expansion, female labour force participation in rural India dropped precipitously over the last decade. Nation-wide individual-level data allow us to explore if random reservation of village leadership for females affected women’s access to job opportunities, their demand for participation in the labour force, and income as well as intra-household bargaining in the short-and medium term. G…
Impact of Gendered Participation in market-linked value-chains on Economic Outcomes
Inheritance Law Reform, Empowerment, and Human Capital Accumulation
Although many studies point towards significant positive impacts of Hindu Succession Act (HSA) reforms on females’ empowerment and access to human and physical capital, the fact that this reform also led to increased female mortality raises questions about long-term sustainability of reform effects. We use evidence from three states, one of which amended the HSA in 1994, to assess first- and second-generation effects of this reform using a triple…
Does Land Fragmentation Increase the Cost of Cultivation? Evidence from India
To appreciate overall impacts of fragmentation, underlying channels, and potential heterogeneity by holding size, we distinguish average fragment size and mean inter-fragment distance as two aspects of this phenomenon. Estimating a cost function with associated input demand equations on a large nationally representative Indian survey, robust to endogeneity, suggests that fragmentation’s main impact is to reduce mean plot size below the threshold …
Does Female Reservation Affect Long-Term Political Outcomes? Evidence from Rural India
Although many studies have explored the \n impacts of political quotas for females, often with \n ambiguous results, the underlying mechanisms and long-term \n effects have received little attention. This paper uses \n nation-wide data from India spanning a 15-year period to \n explore how reservations affect leader qualifications, \n service delivery, political participation, local \n accountability, and individuals willingness to contribute \n …
Land Reforms, Poverty Reduction, and Economic Growth
Recognition of the importance of institutions that provide security of property rights and relatively equal access to economic resources to a broad cross-section of society has renewed interest in the potential of asset redistribution, including land reforms. Empirical analysis of the impact of such policies is, however, scant and often contradictory. We use panel household data from India, together with state-level variation in the land reform i…
Determinants and Consequences of Land Sales Market Participation
Determinants and Consequences of Land Sales Market Participation
Land Reforms, Poverty Reduction, and Economic Growth
Recognition of the importance of institutions that provide security of property rights and relatively equal access to economic resources to a broad cross-section of society has renewed interest in the potential of asset redistribution, including land reforms. Empirical analysis of the impact of such policies is, however, scant and often contradictory. We use panel household data from India, together with state-level variation in the land reform i…
Does Female Reservation Affect Long-Term Political Outcomes? Evidence from Rural India
Although many studies have explored the \n impacts of political quotas for females, often with \n ambiguous results, the underlying mechanisms and long-term \n effects have received little attention. This paper uses \n nation-wide data from India spanning a 15-year period to \n explore how reservations affect leader qualifications, \n service delivery, political participation, local \n accountability, and individuals willingness to contribute \n …
Does Land Fragmentation Increase the Cost of Cultivation? Evidence from India
To appreciate overall impacts of fragmentation, underlying channels, and potential heterogeneity by holding size, we distinguish average fragment size and mean inter-fragment distance as two aspects of this phenomenon. Estimating a cost function with associated input demand equations on a large nationally representative Indian survey, robust to endogeneity, suggests that fragmentation’s main impact is to reduce mean plot size below the threshold …
Inheritance Law Reform, Empowerment, and Human Capital Accumulation
Although many studies point towards significant positive impacts of Hindu Succession Act (HSA) reforms on females’ empowerment and access to human and physical capital, the fact that this reform also led to increased female mortality raises questions about long-term sustainability of reform effects. We use evidence from three states, one of which amended the HSA in 1994, to assess first- and second-generation effects of this reform using a triple…
Impact of Gendered Participation in market-linked value-chains on Economic Outcomes
Addressing Declining Female Labor Force Participation in India
Despite income growth, fertility decline, and educational expansion, female labour force participation in rural India dropped precipitously over the last decade. Nation-wide individual-level data allow us to explore if random reservation of village leadership for females affected women’s access to job opportunities, their demand for participation in the labour force, and income as well as intra-household bargaining in the short-and medium term. G…
Economics (7 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Human capital (3 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (3 works)