Browsing Osberg, Lars by Author "Motiram, Sripad"

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  • Demand or Supply for Schooling in Rural India? 

    Motiram, Sripad, and Lars Osberg. 2012. "Demand or Supply for Schooling in Rural India?." electronic International Journal of Time Use Research 9(1): 1-27.
    Is the poor human capital investment by rural Indian families primarily a supply side or a demand side issue? We examine school attendance and total human capital investment time (time in school plus travel time plus in-home ...

  • Social Capital and Basic Goods: The Cautionary Tale of Drinking Water in India 

    Motiram, Sripad and Lars Osberg, "Social Capital and Basic Goods: The Cautionary Tale of Drinking Water in India," Working Paper, 2010.
    This paper uses micro data from the 1998-99 Indian Time Use Survey (ITUS - covering 77,593 persons in 18,591 households in Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Orissa and Haryana) to examine the relative ...

  • Social Capital and Basic Goods: The Cautionary Tale of Drinking Water in India 

    Motiram, Sripad, and Lars Osberg. 2010. "Social Capital and Basic Goods: The Cautionary Tale of Drinking Water in India." Economic Development and Cultural Change 59(1): 63-94.
    This study uses micro-data from the 1998-99 Indian Time Use Survey (ITUS; covering 77,593 persons in 18,591 households in Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Orissa, and Haryana) to argue that time use data ...

  • Tasks and Opportunities within Indian Families 

    Motiram, Sripad and Lars Osberg, "Tasks and Opportunities within Indian Families," (paper presented at the Canadian Economics Association meetings, Vancouver, June 6, 2008).