Common resources may be managed with inefficient policies for the sake of equity. We study how rationing the commons … shapes the efficiency and equity of resource use, in the context of agricultural groundwater use in Rajasthan, India. We find …

development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries—Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil —all …

assemblies in India generated by national policies that cause reservations to be revised and the time lags with which revised …

knowledge gain from watching an information movie in rural India, while randomized village assignment identifies knowledge …

This paper explores the aggregate economic effects from India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS …

India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …

, India, we find that “gung ho entrepreneurs” (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance …

The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when … the commons. Within the realm of natural resources, there are special challenges associated with renewable resources …. Critical commons problems are also associated with environmental quality. A key contribution of economics has been the …

overall catch quota to a voluntary cooperative, with the remainder exploited as a commons by those choosing to fish …