The effect of population or social homogeneity has been documented to have mixed evidence on public good provisioning and welfare outcomes. In this paper, we examine the implications of caste-group homogeneity in India in a pandemic setting taking the case of the COVID-19 pandemic. In...

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are the backbone of the Indian manufacturing sector, contributing nearly a third of India's GDP and providing employment to over 110 million workers. Beginning on the 25th of March 2020, the Government of India has imposed one of the strictest...

Can large-scale social safety nets be nutrition sensitive even if they do not explicitly incorporate health and nutrition as programmatic goals? This paper focuses on the consequences of a countrywide guaranteed workfare programme (MGNREGA) and subsidised food distribution scheme (PDS) in India...

Can large-scale social safety nets be nutrition sensitive even if they do not explicitly incorporate health and nutrition as programmatic goals? This paper focuses on the consequences of a countrywide guaranteed workfare programme (MGNREGA) and subsidised food distribution scheme (PDS) in India...

Over time, the state of Kerala has systematically outperformed the rest of India in terms of literacy outcomes. In this paper, two explanations are considered: one, centred on historical inertia, attributes Kerala’s educational outcomes to investments made in pre-independence times....

We examine implications of industrial deregulations, trade liberalisation and labour regulations on workers' bargaining power and firms' markup in Indian manufacturing industries, using state-wise three-digit industry-level panel data for the period 1980-2007. Results of our econometric analysis...