regulations create conditions for corrupt practices. This study uses a broad-based survey for India to examine the role of … relationship between economic freedom and corruption in India is layered, with firm characteristics playing a crucial role. …

We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social … divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to … for access to tap water in rural India. Communities that are heterogeneous in terms of caste (within the majority Hindu …

In India, 52-98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by …

We investigate the impact of groundwater contamination on educational outcomes in India. Our study leverages variations …-contaminated regions in India, we find that prolonged exposure to unsafe groundwater is associated with increased school absenteeism, grade …

This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the … power disruption seems to significantly depress adoption and returns to ICT expenditures in India. This may be indicative of …

Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey … instrumental variables (IV) strategy. The IV approach exploits the dramatic expansion of cell towers in India as a source of supply …