Experimental evidence from Pakistan shows distance poses a large and discontinuous access constraint: women with village-based training…
We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani villages with…
Using rich panel data from Pakistan, we compute test score based measures of quality (School Value-Addeds or SVAs) for more than 800…
The comparative advantage of a location shapes its industrial structure. Current theoretical models based on this principle do not take a…
“Born in Pedamaddali village of Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh in 1939, K. Madhava Rao did his early schooling in a village school,…
“Katihar to Kennedy is an extraordinary journey of a man from dusty alleys of Katihar to the gleaming pathways of Kennedy. It is an…
We test for financial constraints as a market failure in education in a low-income country by experimentally allocating unconditional cash…
Female labor force participation varies significantly even among countries with similar levels of economic development. Recent studies have…
Sustained high economic growth since the early 1990s has brought significant change to the lives of Indian women, and yet female labor…
This paper presents a conceptual account of urban governance in Mumbai as a rent-sharing system based fundamentally on control over urban…