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We report on a large randomized controlled trial of hospital insurance for above-poverty-line Indian households. Households were assigned to free insurance, sale of insurance, sale plus cash transfer, or control. To estimate spillovers, the fraction of households offered insurance varied across...
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The COVID-19 pandemic led to stark reductions in economic activity in India. We employ CMIE's Consumer Pyramids …
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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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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 …
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We report on a large randomized controlled trial of hospital insurance for above-poverty-line Indian households. Households were assigned to free insurance, sale of insurance, sale plus cash transfer, or control. To estimate spillovers, the fraction of households offered insurance varied across...
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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 …
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SARS-CoV-2 has had a greater burden, as measured by rate of infection, in poorer communities within cities. For example, 55% of Mumbai slums residents had antibodies to COVID-19, 3.2 times the seroprevalence in non-slum areas of the city according to a sero-survey done in July 2020. One...
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trial that randomized premiums and subsidies for India's first national, public hospital insurance program, RSBY. We find …
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trial that randomized premiums and subsidies for India's first national, public hospital insurance program, RSBY. We find …
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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 …
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