This paper explores the interactions between state and society in rural India within a major community-based development program. We use…
Experimental evidence from Pakistan shows distance poses a large and discontinuous access constraint: women with village-based training…
Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani villages with…
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Indian roads represent the worlds' largest program of private sector investment in road development…
The comparative advantage of a location shapes its industrial structure. Current theoretical models based on this principle do not take a…
In 2010, we informed a random set of Delhi councilors, some ineligible for re-election in their current ward, that a newspaper would report…
This paper investigates whether information about improved public services can help build trust in state institutions and move people away…
This 34-chapter open-access book brings together leading scholars to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy…
This 34-chapter open-access book brings together leading scholars to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy…