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

rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India. …

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

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

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …

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

sind. Ein alternativer, ursachenorientierter Ansatz ist die Senkung des sozialen Leistungsniveaus durch Workfare. Eine … of a workfare strategy. The potential wages of transfer recipients, estimated on the basis of the German Socio …