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

Public knowledge about India's ambitious Employment Guarantee Scheme is low in one of India's poorest states, Bihar, where participation is also unusually low. Is the solution simply to tell people their rights? Or does their lack of knowledge reflect deeper problems of poor people's agency and...

In the decollectivization of agriculture in Vietnam, local allocation of land use rights reduced overall inequality - thanks to initial conditions at the time of reform and actions by the center to curtail the power of local elites. The decollectivization of agriculture in Vietnam was a crucial...