DAMS

This paper studies the productivity and distributional effects of large irrigation dams in India. Our instrumental variable estimates exploit the fact that river gradient affects a district's suitability for dams. In districts located downstream from a dam, agricultural production increases, an...

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Hoofdauteur: ESTHER DUFLO AND ROHINI PANDE
Formaat: Printed Book
Gepubliceerd in: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2007 2007
Online toegang:http://10.26.1.76/ks/002331.pdf
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