Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform

Eric V. Edmonds, Nina Pavcnik, Petia Topalova

NBER Working Paper No. 12884
Issued in February 2007

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We thank Orazio Attanasio, Penny Goldberg, Ann Harrison, Deborah Swenson, Alessandro Tarozzi as well as seminar and conference participants at ASSA meetings, Boston College, Boston University, BREAD, Colby College, Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke, Econometric Society Meetings, Empirical Investigations in International Trade Conference, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Minnesota International Economic Development Conference, MIT, NBER India Working Group, NBER ITI Meetings, NEUDC, Stanford Trade Liberalization and Its Consequences Conference, Syracuse, University of Michigan, University of Toronto, and Yale. We thank Rohini Pande and Siddharth Sharma for sharing their data. Correspondence to Edmonds or Pavcnik at 6106 Rockefeller Hall. Dartmouth College. Hanover, NH 03755 USA. Email: eedmonds@dartmouth.edu, nina.pavcnik@dartmouth.edu, or Topalova at PTopalova@imf.org. We are grateful for the support from the National Science Foundation grant SES 0452096 and the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the International Monetary Fund, its Executive Board, or its management. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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