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Long-term Effects of the Targeting the Ultra Poor Program
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2020
following the transfer and persist until year 10, consistent with the alleviation of a poverty trap. One main channel for …
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Cash Transfers for Child Development : Experimental Evidence from India
Weaver, Jeffrey; Sukhtankar, Sandip; Niehaus, Paul; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Despite significant economic growth, child development outcomes in India remain poor. Using a large-scale experiment in which randomly-selected mothers receive cash transfers for the first two years of their child's life, we examine the relationship between income and child development in the...
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Banking on Transparency for the Poor : Experimental Evidence from India
Field, Erica Marie; Rigol, Natalia; Moore, Charity Troyer; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Do information frictions limit the benefits of financial inclusion drives for the rural poor? We evaluate an experimental intervention among recently banked poor Indian women receiving government cash transfers via direct deposit. Treated women were provided automated voice calls confirming...
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Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2019
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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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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On the Welfare Gains from Tradeable Benefits-in-Kind
Ravallion, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
. The results indicate large gains from tradeable assignments after first randomizing. The gains exceed those from poverty …
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Declining Clientelism of Welfare Benefits? Targeting and Political Competition based Evidence from an Indian state
Maitra, Pushkar; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
It has been argued that since 2014, under the BJP-led central government, welfare benefits in India have become better targeted and less prone to clientelistic control by state and local governments. Arguably this has helped to increase the vote share of the BJP vis-a-vis regional parties. We...
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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 - 2020
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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Early Childhood Intervention for the Poor : Long Term Outcomes
Andrew, Alison; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Augsburg, Britta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Early childhood interventions aim to promote skill acquisition and poverty reduction. While their short-term success is …
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