. A case study for India's massive National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme indicates lower impacts on poverty than …

and marketed a rainfall index insurance product across three states in India. Marketing agricultural insurance to both … the insurance market (which is the current regulatory practice in India and other developing countries), makes wage …

Pratham's "Teaching at the Right Level" methodology into elementary schools in India. The methodology consists of re …

The pace of biodiversity loss requires drastic shifts in conservation efforts that carry substantial costs. We … initiative launched by the Chinese central government in 2017 to enforce biodiversity preservation rules in national nature … reserves. We document that, while improving local biodiversity, the initiative led to a significant increase in bond yields for …

promotion or for the purpose of retail arbitrage. Using US supermarket scanner data covering the 2008 Global Rice Crisis, an … episode driven by an observable cost shock due an Indian ban on raw rice exports, we find that sticky prices account for a …

which a procurement process was introduced that allowed citizens to bid to take over the implementation of a subsidized rice … reported the quality of the rice improved. Bidding committees may have avoided quality problems by choosing bidders who had …

rainfall shocks on rice output at the district level. Our analysis makes use of local meteorological data on rainfall in … combination with government administrative data on district-level rice output in the 1990s. We find that deviations from mean … local rainfall are positively associated with district-level rice output. 10% higher rainfall leads metric tons of rice …