nutrition as programmatic goals? This paper focuses on the consequences of a countrywide guaranteed workfare programme (MGNREGA …) and subsidised food distribution scheme (PDS) in India for the prevalence of anaemia, examining whether individuals in …

India. We then show that a workfare program that decouples both wages and consumption from rainfall attenuates the …This paper revisits the relationship between agricultural productivity shocks and the infant sex ratio in India and …

The Punjab Insurgency in India (1978-1993) took the lives of over 20,000 people. Yet, there has been little research on … the economic causes and consequences of the conflict in Punjab, which has been classified as a civil war and also an … insurgency. In this article, I delve into some of the reasons for why Punjab suffered such a prolonged and bloody insurgency …

analyze the impact of one of the world's largest anti-poverty programs, India's NREGS, on the intensity of Maoist conflict. We … find short-run increases of insurgency-related violence, police-initiated attacks, and insurgent attacks on civilians. We …

This paper looks at the effect of India's flagship workfare program, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Guarantee Scheme … (MGNREGS), on domestic violence via its role as social insurance and a means for improving women's say in household decisions … between income shocks and domestic violence. The empirical section uses a difference-in-differences strategy to show that the …