Agriculture in both the developing and developed country context is highly sensitive to weather shocks. The intensity … literature. We examine the insurance benefits of crop diversity in the context of India at the height of the Green Revolution, a …

India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the world's largest public works program, has been … relatively understudied (Sukhtankar, 2017). We test whether NREGA modulates the impact of adverse weather shocks on agricultural … yields. Our empirical strategy exploits the staggered rollout of NREGA and random fluctuations in weather. Using nationwide …