We study how attendance rates of primary school children respond to cost neutral changes in the design of India …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …

We consider the largely unexpected shock caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India to assess whether …

examine the role of one of the world's largest employment guarantee schemes, India's MG-NREGA, in cushioning job losses in one … capacity to provide public workdays under the scheme generated relatively higher employment during the pandemic. Consequently … areas in April-August 2020 by 7% overall and by 74% for rural women, over baseline employment rate. These cushioning effects …