governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that …

census data. The results offer support to the identification strategy proposed. -- spatial decentralization, program …

In this paper, we investigate the impacts of political decentralization and women reservation in local governance on … institutional births and child mortality in the state of Bihar, India. Using the difference-in-differences methodology, we find a … significant positive association between political decentralization and institutional births. We also find that the increased …

Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …

exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its … group by education, gender, and geographical location. -- Caste ; employment ; wage differentials ; public sector ; India …

, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less …' grade progression. -- early childhood development ; less developed country ; India ; schooling …

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

This paper shows that participation in a community-level female empowerment program in India significantly increases …-participants relative to women in untreated districts. -- women's empowerment ; community-level interventions ; impact evaluation ; India …

analyze the impact of one of the world's largest anti-poverty programs, India's NREGS, on the intensity of Maoist conflict. We …

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