The effect of population or social homogeneity has been documented to have mixed evidence on public good provisioning and welfare outcomes. In this paper, we examine the implications of caste-group homogeneity in India in a pandemic setting taking the case of the COVID-19 pandemic. In...

Over the past two decades, conditional cash transfer programmes have gained importance to improve schooling outcomes and delay female child marriage. This paper evaluates the impact of one of such programme implemented in West Bengal (WB) since 2013 known as the Kanyashree Prakalpya (KP) on...

Evaluation of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes in a developing country context indicates a positive impact on increasing enrollment but finds mixed evidence on improving learning outcomes. Using representative rural household survey data, we evaluated one of the largest CCT programmes...