In 2007 the state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India began rolling out Aarogyasri health insurance to reduce … catastrophic health expenditures in households ‘below the poverty line’. We exploit variation in program roll-out over time and … and scheduled tribe households as much as the rest of the population. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York …

on children’s nutritional outcomes, we test whether social capital serves as an informal insurance mechanism and helps … households minimize the negative effect of shocks. We examine the impact of two kinds of income shocks, idiosyncratic and …