India. Using primary survey data, we find more program inefficiencies and leakages in village councils reserved for women …

We consider the largely unexpected shock caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India to assess whether …

Unlike the global trend, India has witnessed a secular decline in women's employment rates over the past few decades … affected female labor force participation rates in India. …

We use high frequency worker level productivity data from garment manufacturing units in India to study the effects of …

information experiment in rural India. Treatment villages were randomly assigned to receive information about negative health …

urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points during …

partner selection in India. We find that employed women are 14.5% less likely to receive interest from male suitors relative … patriarchy on marital preferences, especially for men hailing from higher castes and northern India, where communities have more …

Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public service delivery in India. Existing research suggests that the … corruption. There is near consensus, however, that India has had limited success in reducing poverty and enhancing human capital … incentives, transparency and state capacity as the key challenges to reducing the governance deficit in India. IGC supported …

school hours. We conduct a lab-in-the field experiment, leveraging the extension of India's school meal program from primary …