Primary education in India is a development question of a unique magnitude, and the delivery of education by Indian … inspections. We also show that around election years, teachers spend more time on "non-teaching" activities. The political cycles …

Among countries with comparable levels of income, India has one of the more progressive disability policy frameworks …; however, people with disabilities in India are subject to multiple disadvantages. This paper focuses on state-level variations …

, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority representation on the frequency of visits to … legislative assemblies mandated by the Constitution of India. Using data from state and village level surveys on fifteen major …

societies. Religious riots have claimed more than 14,000 lives in India since 1950. We study the effect of Hindu-Muslim riots on … election results in India. We combine data on riots, which have been geo-coded, with electoral data on state legislature … states in India over a 21 year period from 1981-2001.We suggest a new instrument that draws upon the random variation in the …

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 …