This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite … smooth consumption in rural India for the foreseeable future, as they have for centuries, unless alternative consumption …

In collaboration with the Government of Bihar, India, we conducted a large-scale experiment to evaluate whether … transparency in fiscal transfer systems can increase accountability and reduce corruption in the implementation of a workfare …

We examine the effect of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), one of the largest workfare … 2.5 million rural children in India, we show that each year of exposure to NREGS decreases school enrollment by 2 …

Evaluations of workfare programs in poor rural economies have typically ignored two features that policy makers stress … methods to incorporate both features, and shows that doing so can switch the policy ranking in favor of welfare over workfare …. A case study for India's massive National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme indicates lower impacts on poverty than …

on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is that an increase in per-capita Muslim expenditures generates a …. These findings speak to the origins of Hindu-Muslim violence in post-Independence India …We model inter-group conflict driven by economic changes within groups. We show that if group incomes are low …

the intensity of government-mandated lock-downs in India, we show that domestic violence complaints increase 0.47 SD in …Violence against women is a problem worldwide, with economic costs ranging from 1-4% of global GDP. Using variation in … decreased female mobility in public spaces, public transport, and workplaces. Attitudes toward domestic violence play an …

competition and its effects on patterns of ethnic violence. Using local comparisons within Gujarat, a single Indian state known … future elections, which also saw less ethnic violence. I interpret these results as consistent with the existence of a … for ethnic violence. Where marginal electoral constituencies coincide with or reflect pre-existing inter-ethnic economic …

the theory in a lab experiment where two subjects negotiate how to share a resource; in case of conflict, the subjects … they translate into significant increases in conflict …

We study the impact of plausibly exogenous global food price shocks on local violence across the African continent. In … food-producing areas, higher food prices reduce conflict over the control of territory (what we call "factor conflict") and … increase conflict over the appropriation of surplus ("output conflict"). We argue that this difference arises because higher …