Traditional Institutions Meet the Modern World: Caste, Gender, and Schooling Choice in a Globalizing Economy

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Uneven Growth: A Framework for Research in Development Economics (2010, background): “(The concept goes back at least to Nurkse (1953) and Lewis (1954).”
Industrial Policy: Don’t Ask Why, Ask How (2009, neutral): “Munshi and Rosenzweig (2003) have studied how extra-market social arrangements — the caste system in India — constrain and shape the operation of the labor market.”
A systematic review of English medium instruction in higher education (2017, background): “For this we would need both an economics research perspective (e.g. evidence of impact on gross domestic product) and whether students’ career prospects on the global market had actually been enhanced (Munshi & Rosenzweig 2006; Kapur & Chakraborty 2008; Chakraborty & Bakshi 2016).”
Making up people—The effect of identity on performance in a modernizing society (2014, background): “Recent work in economics takes up this exciting question (e.g. Hoff and Sen 2006, Munshi and Rosenzweig 2006, Hoff and Stiglitz 2010, Greif and Laitin 2004, and Greif and Tabellini 2012).”
The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries (2015, background): “Ironically, because women lack the strong job networks that men have and are thus not channeled into traditional occupations, they might be able to take advantage of these new job opportunities more than men can (Munshi & Rosenzweig 2006).”