Does information dissemination among beneficiaries of welfare programmes mitigate their implementation failures? We present experimental evidence in the context of a rural public works programme in India, where we assess the impact of an intervention that involves dissemination of publicly...

Gender issues, and gender equality in particular, can be regarded as cross-cutting issues in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), even though it is unclear how they are taken into account. This study addresses this information gap by performing an assessment of the...

Does information dissemination among beneficiaries of welfare programs mitigate implementation failures that undermine these programs? We present experimental evidence on this question in the context of the rural public works program in India. A noble intervention that involves accessing micro...

The English version of this paper can be found at http://ssrn.com/abstract=3628761Spanish Abstract: El presente estudio estima el shock de oferta de primer orden, producto de la reducción de la oferta de trabajo asociada con las medidas de contención y distanciamiento social tomadas por el...

Does information dissemination among beneficiaries of welfare programmes mitigate their implementation failures? We present experimental evidence in the context of a rural public works programme in India, where we assess the impact of an intervention that involves dissemination of publicly...

The English version of this paper can be found at "http://ssrn.com/abstract=3686212" http://ssrn.com/abstract=3686212.Spanish Abstract: En tiempos del COVID-19, cuando el 'distanciamiento social' surge como una nueva normalidad, conocer los trabajos que se pueden realizar desde casa, es sin...

This paper estimates the job and wage losses of workers, using the lens of informality, due to lockdown measures undertaken by the Government of India to tackle the spread of COVID-19. It focuses on the first two lockdowns when containment measures in India were most stringent in the world. We...

This paper assesses the impact of an information dissemination intervention on the local-level implementation of the rural public works program in India. One key feature of the intervention is to provide information to workers once their wages get credited into their accounts. Using...