This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The …

, especially for government programs like the National Rural Livelihoods Mission in India. This study aims to provide empirical … first study to estimate the annual income effects of a government-run rural livelihoods program in India, and it shows …

This paper uses the construction of India's Golden Quadrangle central highway network, together with comprehensive loan … data from the Reserve Bank of India, to investigate the interaction between infrastructure development and financial sector …

-household bargaining. This paper uses primary data on women's social networks in Uttarakhand, India; the modal woman has only three friends …

This paper develops a tractable method to identify urban areas and applies it to India, where urbanization is messy … urban or rural in practice. Contrary to frequent claims, India is not substantially more urban than implied by census data …

This study examines the asset gains to households in Kerala, India, from two types of labor migration: moving overseas … versus moving within India for employment. It draws on panel data from waves of a representative household survey conducted …-migrants enables them to earn as much in low-skill jobs abroad as more educated workers relocating within India can …

Punjab, India, to assess the impact of a flagship sanitation program of the Government of India. The program, the Clean India …, eliminate the practice of open defecation, and improve the awareness and practice of good hygiene across rural India. It …