aid and conflict shows that this strategy is susceptible to bias arising from spurious trends. Re-randomization and Monte … causal in the opposite direction, invalidating the claim that aid causes conflict and providing a caution for similar …

This paper studies long-term impacts of violent conflict, to provide insights into the costs of conflict and policies … to prevent conflict relapse. The findings link evidence on the contemporaneous effects of conflict with its persistent …. There is a strong level effect on output arising from the intensity of conflict, which, contrary to perceptions of post-conflict …

Workfare schemes impose work requirements on beneficiaries. This has seemed an attractive idea for self …-targeting transfers to poor people. This incentive argument does not imply, however, that workfare is more cost-effective against poverty … than even poorly-targeted options, given hidden costs of participation. In particular, even poor workfare participants in a …

Prevailing practices in evaluating workfare programs have ignored the disutility of the type of work done, with … theoretically ambiguous implications for the impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme …

Public knowledge about India's ambitious Employment Guarantee Scheme is low in one of India's poorest states, Bihar …

This paper describes the key challenges to job creation in conflict-affected environments in South Asia. It uses … household survey data since the early 2000s for Afghanistan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka to document the characteristics of … labor markets in conflict-affected areas, exploiting the spatial and time variation in armed conflict within countries. The …

This paper analyzes the incidence and extent to which domestic violence and physical harassment on public/private buses … is underreported in Kerala, India, using the list randomization technique. The results indicate that the level of … underreporting is over nine percentage points for domestic violence and negligible for physical harassment on public/private buses …

the welfare of a society. Given the number of societies that are infected with political conflict and, as a result, lower … conflict. The key idea is that expressively motivated group members may create incentives for instrumentally motivated group … leaders such that it leads them to choose conflict rather than compromise. Nonetheless, it is not argued that such a peace is …