Infant mortality among Hindus is higher than among Muslims in India, and religious differences in sanitation practices …-representative data sets from India. Across all three data sets, the unconditional religion-specific gap in latrine ownership and latrine … handwashing or observed fecal material near homes. Household sanitation practices vary substantially across areas of India, but …

This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The … reductions. In validation tests, the model's predictions perform comparably to the World Bank's current adjustment method when …

, 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 …