explicitly addresses issues pertaining to the potential endogeneity and measurement error of initial income and poverty. We find …

We examine economic mobility in India while rigorously accounting for measurement error. Such an analysis is imperative … to fully understand the welfare effects of the rise in inequality that has occurred in India over the past few decades … poverty compared to Hindus, upper caste groups, and urban households. These findings suggest inequality in India is likely to …

India, including 53,030 mothers and 113,708 children, collected in 2015-16. Outcomes are measured as multidimensional …

is among children in India and China, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in India and China. We show that the …

average treatment effect of interest will typically fail. While the form of this measurement error varies across applications …, in many cases the measurement error structure is heterogeneous across different groups of observations. We develop a … novel measurement error correction procedure capable of addressing heterogeneous mismeasurement structures by leveraging …

allocation of funds for India's largest social protection programme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in … the state of West Bengal in India, and whether incumbent local governments (village councils) gain electorally in the …

in India. Despite the potentially important consequences and the widely divergent views, the implications of their …