agriculture. Yet, there is a lack of consensus on its ability to spur structural transformation in rural economies. We present …

in agriculture, small and medium enterprises and human capital differ significantly from year to year. We also show how …

provide new evidence, from a randomized control trial conducted in rural Orissa, India (one of the poorest places in India …

We examine the effect of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), one of the largest workfare … 2.5 million rural children in India, we show that each year of exposure to NREGS decreases school enrollment by 2 …

graduating class from an elite engineering institution (EEI) in India we evaluate the impact of affirmative action policies in …

We compare the recent economic performances of China and India using a simple growth accounting framework that produces … estimates of the contribution of labor, capital, education, and total factor productivity for the three sectors of agriculture … roughly double that of India at the aggregate level, and also higher in each of the three sectors in both sub-periods. In …

alone. Finally, using calculations from J-PAL fieldwork, we show that in rural India, for example, ARD surveys are 80 …