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Long-Term Effects of the Targeting the Ultra Poor Program

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther; Sharma, Garima - 2022

This paper studies the long-run effects of a "big-push" program providing a large asset transfer to the poorest Indian households. In a randomized controlled trial that follows these households over 10 years, we find positive effects on consumption (0.6 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3...

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Growth, Urbanization and Poverty Reduction in India

Datt, Gaurav - 2016

Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for … India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty … measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …

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Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Breza, Emily; Duflo, Esther; … - 2021

Can microcredit help unlock a poverty trap for some people by putting their businesses on a different trajectory? Could … facilitate escape from a poverty trap …

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Inconsistent Policy Evaluation : A Case Study for a Large Workfare Program

Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2015

. A case study for India's massive National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme indicates lower impacts on poverty than … in terms of the impact on poverty for a given budgetary outlay …

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Aggregate Effects from Public Works : Evidence from India

Cook, C. Justin; Shah, Manisha - 2022

This paper explores the aggregate economic effects from India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), which provides up to 100 days of labor to rural laborers at the mandated minimum wage. We examine the within-district change to night-time lights and banking deposits using the...

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Why is Mobility in India so Low? Social Insurance, Inequality, and Growth

Munshi, Kaivan D. - 2014

This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite increased growth rates and rising inequality in recent years, is due to the existence of sub-caste networks that provide mutual insurance to their members. Unique panel data...

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Aging and Death Under a Dollar a Day

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2010

This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...

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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments : Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform

Edmonds, Eric V. - 2010

a failure to follow the national trend in poverty reduction. Schooling costs appear to play a large role in this … relationship between poverty, schooling, and child labor. Extrapolating from our results, our estimates imply that roughly half of … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …

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Caloric Requirements and Food Consumption Patterns of the Poor

Eli, Shari - 2015

intake is a widely-used indicator of poverty and welfare, investigating changes in caloric requirements and food consumption …

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The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor

Bessone, Pedro; Rao, Gautam; Schilbach, Frank; … - 2021

The urban poor in developing countries face challenging living environments, which may interfere with good sleep. Using actigraphy to measure sleep objectively, we find that low-income adults in Chennai, India sleep only 5.5 hours per night on average despite spending 8 hours in bed. Their sleep...

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