, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less …

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

We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal …

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 …

experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion for villagers in south India to highlight behavioral features of …

random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …

Trust and participation in social networks are inherently interrelated. We make use of India's demonetization policy … trust. We use first-hand quantitative and qualitative data from rural South India and control for individual characteristics …

Since October 2014, the Government of India has worked towards a goal of eliminating open defecation by 2019 through … India. Here, we report results from a late 2018 survey that revisited households from the 2014 survey in four states: Bihar …

We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India. We model two … population share and land share, we find support for these hypotheses in data from the India Human Development Survey 2011-12 …

observational data identification challenges remain severe. This study exploits the fact that in India people are assigned a caste …