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Is Consumption Smooth at the coast of Volatile Leisure: An Investigation of Rural India

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  1. Chris Elbers & Jan Willem Gunning & Lei Pan, 2007. "Insurance and Rural Welfare: What can Panel Data tell us?," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 07-011/2, Tinbergen Institute. [Downloadable!]
  2. Nigel Key & Michael J. Roberts & Erik O'Donoghue, 2006. "Risk and farm operator labour supply," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 38(5), pages 573-586, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Aubhik Khan & B. Ravikumar, 1999. "Growth and risk-sharing with private information," Working Papers 99-12, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. [Downloadable!]
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  4. P. Maitra, . "A Quantitative Analysis of Employment Guarantee Programs with an Application to Rural India," Working Papers 9709, University of Sydney, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  5. Joseph Halevi, 1998. "The Accumulation Process in Japan and East Asia as Compared with the Role of Germany in European Post-war Growth," Working Papers 9804, University of Sydney, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  6. Gabriella Berloffa & Francesca Modena, 2009. "Income Shocks, Coping Strategies, and Consumption Smoothing. An Application to Indonesian Data," Department of Economics Working Papers 0901, Department of Economics, University of Trento, Italia. [Downloadable!]
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