This paper addresses differences in outcomes across households residing in slums and non-slum urban areas of India. Using a nationally representative household data set, we undertake a robust multidimensional evaluation of intracity differences in well-being. We first established that if utility...

Using primary household data from India we estimate family utility function parameters that measure the relative importance of consumption, schooling of children and health (both physical and mental) and find that mental health is far more important than consumption or children's schooling in...

Using primary household data we estimate family utility function parameters that measure the relative importance of consumption, schooling of children and health (both physical and mental) and find that mental health is far more important than consumption or children's schooling in determining...

We investigate whether the historical shock of the Indian Partition, one of the largest forced displacements in the twentieth century, affected social capital in parts of India in the long-run. India was partitioned in 1947 into India and Pakistan (East and West Pakistan). The Partition shock is...

We ask whether equity promotion through electoral quotas for disadvantaged groups must come at the cost of leader’s overall performance or “efficiency.” The literature on electoral quotas, though invested in the equity question, is mostly silent on this issue. Using randomized electoral...