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Official statistics on deaths in India during the COVID pandemic are either incomplete or are reported with a delay. To … overcome this shortcoming, we estimate excess deaths in India using the household roster from a large panel data set, the …% CI: 2.8M to 6.2M) excess deaths over 16 months during the pandemic in India. While we cannot demonstrate causality …
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This paper studies costly network formation in the context of risk sharing. Neighboring agents negotiate agreements as in Stole and Zwiebel (1996), which results in the social surplus being allocated according to the Myerson value. We uncover two types of inefficiency: overinvestment in social...
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It has been argued that since 2014, under the BJP-led central government, welfare benefits in India have become better …
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Using rural household survey data from West Bengal, we find that voters respond positively to excludable government welfare benefits but not to local public good programs, while reporting having benefited from both. Consistent with these voting patterns, shocks to electoral competition induced...
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scalable intervention in India, that affected developmental outcomes in the short-term, including cognition (0.36 SD p=0 …
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the globe--to evaluate India's varied road construction projects in the early 2000s. Estimating the model requires only … through public sources. We find that India's road investments from this period improved aggregate welfare, particularly for …
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Despite significant economic growth, child development outcomes in India remain poor. Using a large-scale experiment in … explanatory factor for the poor translation of increases in income into child growth in India …
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We study migration in the right tail of the talent distribution using a novel dataset of Indian high school students taking the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE), a college entrance exam used for admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). We find a high incidence of migration...
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job seekers in India applying to guest worker jobs in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Working with construction companies …
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conduct an RCT in the data entry sector in India that exogenously allocates workers to the home or office. We find that the …
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