Do environmental conditions pose greater health risks to individuals living in urban or rural areas? The answer is … pollution, drinking water pollution, and extreme temperatures—and the response to those exposures differ across urban and rural …, we present new evidence on urban-rural differences in air quality and population sensitivity to air pollution, leveraging …

random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …-oriented choices of households. …

the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India. … rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically …-SCs/STs rather than general category (mostly higher castes). The ST households are the most disadvantaged followed by the SC and the …

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 … survey of rural lenders. Households borrow primarily from informal moneylenders and use child labor. Removing the rate cap … household types. …

This article considers non-unitary models of household behavior. These models suppose explicitly that households … household behavior in these models are subject to constraints that differ from the traditional Slutsky conditions. In addition …, in a certain number of specific cases, the preferences of the different household members can be identified from …

, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … and household welfare. Special attention is paid to methodological issues on how to design a module and operationalize … and discuss a generic household module that can be easily inserted into future socio-economic surveys implemented in …

We use micro data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to document how households' tax liabilities vary with income … children. The data reveals a large dispersion in tax rates and taxes paid. Ranking households according to the average tax … married and 31.8% of unmarried households do not pay any taxes. Given the progressivity in the system, tax liabilities are …