Domestic violence is common, socially and economically very costly, yet widely accepted in many countries. Can participatory theater - a novel cultural intervention - reduce its occurrence? Through a survey that the authors conducted in 92 villages in West Bengal, India, this paper provides a...

Domestic violence is common, socially and economically very costly, yet widely accepted in many countries. Can participatory theater-a novel cultural intervention-reduce its occurrence? Through a survey that the authors conducted in 92 villages in West Bengal, India, this paper provides a first...

To what extent does information affect the demand for environmental quality? A randomly selected group of households in an Indian city were informed whether or not their drinking water had tested positive for fecal contamination using a simple, inexpensive test kit. Households initially not...

A household's observed poverty status is an ex-post measure of a household's well-being (or lack thereof). But for thinking about forward-looking anti-poverty interventions that aim to prevent rather than alleviate poverty, what really matters is the vulnerability of households to poverty, i.e.,...

The demand for environmental quality is often presumed to be low in developing countries due to poverty. Less attention has been paid to the possibility that lack of awareness about the adverse health effects of environmental pollution could also keep the demand low. We use a household survey...