In India, 52-98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by … services, thereby increasing vulnerability to poor health outcomes. To quantify deprivation for each slum, we construct a basic … deprivation the longer a slum has been notified. In addition, data from the 2012 NSS show that, despite suffering from greater …

This paper provides evidence for informational spillovers within urban slums in Chandigarh, India. I identify three …

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 …

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 …