This paper explores how a job guarantee welfare program interacts with credit markets. We analyze the impact of a country-wide job guarantee program, launched in India in 2006. Exploiting the staggered implementation of the program we estimate the treatment effect of the program on household and...

This paper explores the relative roles of quality of schools and household characteristics on the household's choice of school in India. I use a standard binary choice logit model to estimate the e↵ect of income on private school enrolment after controlling for school attributes and other...

Does inequality affect rent-seeking and vice-versa? Social scientists have argued that inequality fosters rent-seeking and that rent-seeking is likely to reinforce existing inequalities. In this paper, I model rent-seeking in an unequal endowment economy to analyze the conditions under which an...

Several studies have been carried out relating nighttime lights with economic activity. But most studies relating nighttime lights with economic activity have focused on associating higher totals in economic activity with higher sum of lights across regions. The question addressed in this paper...