Zoning laws that restrict rural land to agricultural production pose an important institutional barrier to industrial development. This paper studies the effects of the Industrial Areas (IA) program in Karnataka, India, which rezoned agricultural land for industrial use, but without the economic incentives common with other place-based policies. This paper finds that the program caused a large increase in firm creation and employment in villages overlapping...
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2021/02/09
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Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas
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WPS9541
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2021/02/09
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Land Rezoning and Structural Transformation in Rural India : Evidence from the Industrial Areas Program
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labor force participation rate
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