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Forhad Shilpi

Development Research Group, World Bank
fshilpi@worldbank.org

Forhad Shilpi is a Senior Economist in the Development Research Group (Sustainable Development and Infrastructure). Her current research focusses on the impacts of infrastructure on rural-urban transformation, the role of domestic market institutions in the transmission of international price signals, and intergenerational mobility in developing countries. Her research has been published or is forthcoming in leading development and economics journals such as American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Economica, Canadian Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Economics Letters, and World Development. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Johns Hopkins University.

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क्या परिवहन में ढाँचागत विकास से ग्रामीण भूमि असमानता बढ़ती है?

परिवहन से जुड़े आधारभूत संरचना में निवेश से व्यापार लागत कम होती है और गांव शहरी बाज़ारों के साथ जुड़ जाते हैं। यह लेख दर्शाता है कि इस स्थानिक एकीकरण के कारण ग्रामीण भारत में भूमि असमानता बढ़ने का अनपेक...

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Does development of transport infrastructure increase rural land inequality?

Investments in transport infrastructure reduce trade costs and lead to integration of villages with urban markets. This article suggests that this spatial integration could have the unintended consequ...

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Understanding intergenerational educational mobility with conflicting evidence

There is a growing literature on intergenerational educational mobility that explores how parental education influences the educational attainment of children. This article compares three empirical mo...

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Does gender (still) determine destiny in India?

Emerging evidence of convergence in educational attainment between girls and boys seems at odds with a large body of research on gender-based discrimination against girls in India. In this context, th...

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