analyze the impact of one of the world's largest anti-poverty programs, India's NREGS, on the intensity of Maoist conflict. We … find short-run increases of insurgency-related violence, police-initiated attacks, and insurgent attacks on civilians. We …

This paper looks at the effect of India's flagship workfare program, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Guarantee Scheme … (MGNREGS), on domestic violence via its role as social insurance and a means for improving women's say in household decisions … between income shocks and domestic violence. The empirical section uses a difference-in-differences strategy to show that the …