Introduction -- Contextualising Public Intervention in Agriculture and Welfare Effects -- Spatial Patterns in Public Expenditure, Subsidies, and Outcomes -- Changing Composition of Private Investment and its Relation to Public Investment and Input Subsidy in Agriculture -- Welfare Effects of...

This paper studies the long-run effects of a "big-push" program providing a large asset transfer to the poorest Indian households. In a randomized controlled trial that follows these households over 10 years, we find positive effects on consumption (0.6 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3...