quality of public services affects economic growth via its impact on poverty alleviation, human capital formation and … corruption. There is near consensus, however, that India has had limited success in reducing poverty and enhancing human capital … incentives, transparency and state capacity as the key challenges to reducing the governance deficit in India. IGC supported …

-environmental behavior. To fill this gap, we investigate the impact of mobile text reminders on households' recycling behavior in urban Peru … the likelihood that households start to recycle, and the frequency of recycling among households that already recycled …

Education Statistics data on school district expenditures. School districts that switch to the four-day school weeks reduce … operating expenditures per pupil by 3.1 percent. The largest percentage reductions occur in spending areas where services are … reduced one day per week (e.g., food service, transportation), with little to no change in instructional expenditures …

beneficiaries relative to non-eligible families. The findings suggest that after the introduction of the program, expenditures on …

methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered …