consumption expenditure is an important question for designing effective safety nets. We use data on household-specific episodes … survey of 1,75,000 households to estimate the impact of a job loss (and change in income) on household consumption … an earning member leads to a significant immediate decline in household consumption expenditure. The decline is much …

India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been hailed as one of the country’s most creative social … initiatives. Since the program was begun only recently (in 2004-05) there is a need to assess household access to this program and … persistence of benefits to households not just in one year but over time. Using a unique panel data set for 2007-08 and 2009 …