India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to isolate causal effects. We find significantly higher growth in …

We consider the largely unexpected shock caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India to assess whether … March and July 2021, we elicit willingness to act against fraud and corruption in the provision of health services by … the COVID-19 peak in their state of residence, we find evidence of a large and significant increase in anti-corruption …

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 …

sector ; corruption ; state domestic product ; governance ; India …India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of … corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and corruption at every stage of economic …

relationship between economic freedom and corruption in India is layered, with firm characteristics playing a crucial role. …Available wisdom suggests that a negative relationship prevails between economic freedom and perceived corruption among … that greater competition may accentuate the problem of corruption. This is contrary to the general observation that …

This study provides the first nation-wide analysis of the labor market implications of occupational licensing for the U ….S. labor market, using data from a specially designed Gallup survey. We find that in 2006, 29 percent of the workforce was …