Pushkar Maitra

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the economic returns from participating in a subsidized vocational education program for women residing in low-income households in India, and find that women who were offered the vocational education are 6% points more likely to be employed, 4% points higher likelihood to be self-employed, and earn 150% more per month than women in the control group.

TL;DR: This paper investigated how individual fertility preferences translate into fertility realizations using a unique data set from Australia and found consistent evidence that the wife's preference is more important than the husband's preference in predicting subsequent births, no matter whether her initial fertility desire is higher or lower than that of her partner.

TL;DR: In this article, a unique data set collected in audits in 2001 and 2002 by the Bureau of Labour and Social Security in Shanghai to examine why firms in Shanghai comply or over-comply with social insurance obligations in a regulatory environment where the expected punishment for noncompliance is low.

TL;DR: In this article, the determinants of self-selection into a vocational training program in India were examined using data from an artefactual field experiment with survey data collected from the targeted community.

TL;DR: In this paper, the treatment effects from participating in a subsidized vocational training program targeted at women residing in low-income households in India were analyzed. But, they did not find that women who were offered the training program were 6 percentage points more likely to be employed, 4 percentage points higher likely to self-employed, and earn 150 percent more per month than women in the control group.