Trust and participation in social networks are inherently interrelated. We make use of India's demonetization policy … trust. We use first-hand quantitative and qualitative data from rural South India and control for individual characteristics …

survey in India to estimate the effect of agricultural productivity shocks - as proxied by exogenous annual rainfall …

estimate the causal effect of cooking fuel choice on infant mortality in India, focusing on children under five years of age …

This paper estimates the effect of coal-fired power plants on infant mortality in India. We find that a one GW increase …

Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public service delivery in India. Existing research suggests that the … corruption. There is near consensus, however, that India has had limited success in reducing poverty and enhancing human capital … incentives, transparency and state capacity as the key challenges to reducing the governance deficit in India. IGC supported …

In a number of countries, youth unemployment is a pressing economic and political concern. In India, 54 percent of the … youth employment, the Government of India has launched a number of skills training programs. This paper deals with … participation in and the impact of one of these programs (DDUJKY) located in rural Bihar, one of India's poorest states. The …

, we examine the urban-rural welfare gap in India in 1983, 1993-94, 2004-05, and 2011-12 across the entire distribution … India Human Development Surveys. …

India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3 …

effects of women's local electoral success on subsequent female candidacy at higher levels of government in India from 1977 to …

In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible … level data of India for the year 2011-12 is used to examine the relationship between educational attainment and labour …