Cash transfers seem to be the latest fad. With elections looming, the Prime Minister’s National Committee on Direct Cash Transfers has been…
We report the results of an experiment that was designed to test for discrimination in grading in India. We recruited teachers to grade…
Financial stress is widely believed to cause health problems. However, policies seeking to relieve financial stress by limiting debt levels…
Learning profiles that track changes in student skills per year of schooling often find shockingly
low learning gains. Using data from…
India has an impressive number of environmental regulations – but have they been a success? This column presents evidence that while…
The clamour for the right to social pensions is another attempt to deal with the Indian state’s inability to provide adequate social…
We use a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and…
What factors determine the nature of political opportunism in local government in South India? To answer this question, we study two types…
In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies. The standard way to model corruption is as an…
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve
health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse…