The COVID-19 pandemic led to stark reductions in economic activity in India. We employ CMIE's Consumer Pyramids …

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 …

procurement decisions in the context of India. We compare 3 different allocation strategies (oldest first, highest contact rate … vaccination using novel, local seroprevalence data from India. Second, we estimate the value of statistical life-years using …

We use a large, representative panel data set from India with monthly data on household finances to examine the … incidence of economic harms during the COVID pandemic. We observe a sharp spike in poverty, peaking during India's sharp but …

Managing the outbreak of COVID-19 in India constitutes an unprecedented health emergency in one of the largest and most … diverse nations in the world. On May 4, 2020, India started the process of releasing its population from a national lockdown …

workers in India. We randomize the timing of income receipt, so that on a given day some workers have more cash-on-hand than …

in India for "lower-caste" groups. We find that it successfully targets the financially disadvantaged: the marginal upper …