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Common resources may be managed with inefficient policies for the sake of equity. We study how rationing the commons … shapes the efficiency and equity of resource use, in the context of agricultural groundwater use in Rajasthan, India. We find …
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development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries--Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil …
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, India, we find that "gung ho entrepreneurs" (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance …
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This paper explores the aggregate economic effects from India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS …
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This paper studies the long-run effects of a "big-push" program providing a large asset transfer to the poorest Indian households. In a randomized controlled trial that follows these households over 10 years, we find positive effects on consumption (1 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3...
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assemblies in India generated by national policies that cause reservations to be revised and the time lags with which revised …
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assignments, and simulates the market using an unusual survey of workers on a rural public-works scheme in a poor state of India …
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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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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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India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …
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