Der Artikel untersucht die Wohlfahrtseffekte der Wirtschaftsreformen in Indien. Im ersten Abschnitt werden die verwendete Methode und die Datenbasis vorgestellt. Danach wird analysiert, wie sich das Einkommen in Indien verteilt und welche Folgerungen daraus abgeleitet werden können....

Does information dissemination among beneficiaries of welfare programs mitigate implementation failures that undermine these programs? We present experimental evidence on this question in the context of the rural public works program in India. A noble intervention that involves accessing micro...

Does information dissemination among beneficiaries of welfare programmes mitigate their implementation failures? We present experimental evidence in the context of a rural public works programme in India, where we assess the impact of an intervention that involves dissemination of publicly...

This paper estimates the job and wage losses of workers, using the lens of informality, due to lockdown measures undertaken by the Government of India to tackle the spread of COVID-19. It focuses on the first two lockdowns when containment measures in India were most stringent in the world. We...