India. Using primary survey data, we find more program inefficiencies and leakages in village councils reserved for women … reservations ; gender ; NREGA ; India …

panel data from India. We show that state governments are more responsive to falls in food production and crop flood damage …

panel data from India. We show that state governments are more responsive to falls in food production and crop flood damage …

conduct a natural experiment that avoids endogeneity, we identify 23 corruption scandals involving high-level government … persist even if we only focus on the connected firms that were not directly involved in the corruption cases. The relative … are efficient firms and that corruption does not thus result in capital misallocation, but fail to find evidence to …

This paper evaluates the effects of encouraging the selection of local politicians in India via community … candidates, elected politicians, government budgets and workfare employment at the village level, I show that incentives for … consensus-based elections lead to politicians that are younger and more educated, but increase how regressively workfare …

The new government in India under the leadership of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi has sought to pursue e-Governance as a … part of its biggerstrategy to improve governance and reduce corruption in the country. Thereis empirical evidence … supporting the efficacy of e-Governance as a tool toreduce corruption. This goal of adopting e-Governance is not a newphenomenon …

backgrounds are considered a great problem in many countries. In particular in India, a public disclosure revealed that a large … proportion of politicians currently face criminal charges. This has led to a heated public debate and emerging literature …