The National Health Insurance Scheme (Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana, RSBY) aims to improve poor people’s access to quality health care in India. This paper looks at the implementation of the scheme in Karnataka, drawing on a large survey of eligible households and interviews with empanelled...

Buyer-Seller networks are pervasive in developing economies yet remain relatively under-studied. Using primary data on contracts between the largest tractor assembler in Pakistanand its suppliers we …find large variations in prices and quantities across suppliers of the sameproduct....

The well-known inverse relationship between farm size and productivity is usually explained in terms ofdiminishing returns with respect to land and other inputs coupled with various types of market frictions thatprevent the efficient allocation of land across farms. We show that even in the...