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 …

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, based on the Young Lives … Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0-5 who are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production …

plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV …