Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version …, thus diminishing the impact on poverty. Some methodological changes perform better, with a poverty-quantile method … as well, or almost as well, in reducing poverty. However, even with a budget sufficient to eliminate poverty with full …

incidence of economic harms during the COVID pandemic. We observe a sharp spike in poverty, peaking during India's sharp but …We use a large, representative panel data set from India with monthly data on household finances to examine the …

This paper measures sleep among the urban poor in India and estimates the economic returns to increased sleep. Adults …

Can microcredit help unlock a poverty trap for some people by putting their businesses on a different trajectory? Could …, India, we find that "gung ho entrepreneurs" (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance … facilitate escape from a poverty trap …

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 …

large dams in India. To account for endogenous placement of dams we use GIS data and the fact that river gradient affects a … dam is built, agricultural production does not increase but poverty does. In contrast, districts located downstream from … the dam benefit from increased irrigation and see agricultural production increase and poverty fall. Overall, our …

better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …

poverty and inequality. This paper uses the sharp trade liberalization in India in 1991, spurred to a large extent by external … factors, to measure the causal impact of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in districts in India. Variation in … about 15 percent of India's progress in poverty reduction over the 1990s. The results are robust to pre-reform trends …