Nolan, Laura B.; Bloom, David E.; Subbaraman, Ramnath - 2017
In India, 52-98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by … the government. In this paper, we use data on 2,901 slums from four waves of the National Sample Survey (NSS) spanning … deprivation, non-notified slums were much less likely to receive financial aid from government slum improvement schemes. Our …