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 …

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

Toilet ownership in India has grown in recent years, but open defecation can persist even when rural households own … latrines. There are at least two pathways through which social norms inhibit the use of toilets in rural India: (i) beliefs … purity that dissociate latrines from cleanliness. A survey in Uttar Pradesh, India, finds a positive correlation between …

universal. The paper reports the results of a field experiment in India in which pairs of men from high and low castes …

is statistically rejected, it is still a good approximation of the labor supply behavior of boat owners in southern India …

influence? This conjecture is investigated using expenditure data at the local level from India's National Rural Employment …

as investment in Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highways, trade liberalization and domestic reforms that India undertook since …

aspirations of adolescent girls and young women in India. The study finds that girls'self-efficacy and mental health are important …