Recent studies have suggested that women's business decisions are influenced by members of their household, especially … growth. To ensure their ability to smooth household consumption and respond to emergencies, women prioritized savings over … illustrate that interpersonal interactions concerning the management of economic resources are an integral part of how household …

This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The … method utilizes expenditure data from 2004-05, 2009-10, and 2011-12 to impute household expenditure into a survey of durable …

through detailed household surveys to understand the vulnerability and impacts of the extreme floods of July 2005, recurrent …

of granularity. This methodology is applied to India, where individual household survey records are mapped to ?places …Policy makers in developing countries, including India, are increasingly sensitive to the links between spatial …? (both rural and urban) below the district level. The analysis disentangles the contributions household characteristics and …

paper examines the long-term effects of household electrification on consumption, labor supply, and schooling in rural India …India's huge expansion in rural electrification in the 1980s and 1990s offers lessons for other countries today. The … over 1982-99. It finds that household electrification brought significant gains to consumption and earnings, the latter …

The informal sector in India has been exceptionally persistent over the past two decades. Is this a bad thing? Not … necessarily. This paper shows that a substantial share of the persistence in India's unorganized manufacturing sector is due to …. Most of these new female-owned businesses are opened in the household and at a small scale, about a third of the size of a …