This paper develops a model of social interactions and endogenous poverty traps. The key idea is captured in a …

childhood (family income and poverty measures, family characteristics including parental education, and child characteristics …

The traditional approach to poverty measurement puts no explicit weight on success at increasing the typical level of … available surveys for the developing world over 1981-2011, the expected value of the floor is about half the $1.25 a day poverty …

estimate the model using a rich dataset from a group lending program in India. The estimation results support our model …

tuberculosis treatment centers in India, we find that small financial incentives raise the probability that existing patients refer …

India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and … decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India … a failure to follow the national trend in poverty reduction. Schooling costs appear to play a large role in this …

intake is a widely-used indicator of poverty and welfare, investigating changes in caloric requirements and food consumption … patterns is important, especially for the poor. Combining anthropometric and time-use data for India, we construct a …

actigraphy to measure sleep objectively, we find that low-income adults in Chennai, India sleep only 5.5 hours per night on …