Browsing Harvard Kennedy School 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 ... -
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 ...