; household enterprises ; India …

) of the Government of India. We argue that a chronic friction of wage payment delay in this flagship programme could …

allocation of funds for India's largest social protection programme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in … the state of West Bengal in India, and whether incumbent local governments (village councils) gain electorally in the …

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …

occupational mobility in India, using a nationally representative data-set the India Human Development Survey which contains … belonging to socially disadvantaged communities in India lagging behind in social progress. Multigenerational mobility for …

what directions? We take advantage of nationwide data collected in 2010/11 and 2015/16 by India's National Sample Survey … access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative …

India over the last two decades. It then examines the role played by increasing minimum wages for the lowest skilled workers … in India in contributing to the observed decline. Exploiting regional variation in changes in minimum wages over time in …. Counterfactual wage estimations show that the increase in minimum wages explains 26% of the decline in wage inequality in India …

other social groups in rural India across multiple generations. Theoretically, we distinguish between upper caste and own …