India has undertaken extensive reforms in its manufacturing sector over the last two decades. However, an acceleration … of growth in manufacturing, and a corresponding increase in employment, has eluded India. Why have the reforms not … 1980-2004, we analyze the effects of the reforms that liberalized India's industrial licensing regime on the performance of …

To what degree can labor reallocation mitigate the economic consequences of weather-driven agricultural productivity … shocks? I estimate that temperature-driven reductions in the demand for agricultural labor in India are associated with … a key role in attenuating the economic consequences of agricultural productivity shocks. Exploiting firm-level variation …