Information provision and street food safety: A field study in urban India While unsafe street food affects the health of millions of people, information alone may not be enough to change vendors’ food safety practices Health Gianmarco Daniele Sulagna Mookerjee Denni Tommasi Published 24.05.21
How credit market competition increases employment and productivity: Evidence from India Increasing competition between banks in India can improve the lending standards of government banks and yield broader economic benefits Finance Indraneel Chakraborty Apoorva Javadekar Rodney Ramcharan Published 26.04.21
Examining the macro effects of MNREGA The introduction of MNREGA increased economic activity as measured by night-time lights and banking deposits, but mostly in richer districts Methods & Measurement Justin Cook Manisha Shah Published 16.04.21
Women as policymakers: Evidence from a randomised policy experiment in India Women leaders increase the provision of public goods that benefit women and children more, and also raise the aspirations of girls and their parents Institutions & Political Economy Raghab Chattopadhyay Esther Duflo Published 07.04.21
Rank and peer effects in higher education: Evidence from India A more selective academic environment benefits female students along multiple dimensions but male students fail to take advantage of this exposure Education Utteeyo Dasgupta Subha Mani Smriti Sharma Saurabh Singhal Published 12.03.21
In-kind transfers as insurance: Evidence from India While academics and policymakers prefer unconditional cash transfer to the poor, they value in-kind transfers that protect against price fluctuations Social Protection Lucie Gadenne Sam Norris Monica Singhal Sandip Sukhtankar Published 01.03.21
'Til dowry do us part: Bargaining and violence in the Indian marriage market Policy crackdowns on dowries can reduce their prevalence, but with unintended impacts on women’s decision-making power and domestic violence Institutions & Political Economy Rossella Calvi Ajinkya Keskar Published 26.02.21
Public disclosure as a political incentive: Evidence from municipal elections in India Councilors who thought performance reports would be published before an election invested more in infrastructure, with positive impacts on re-election Institutions & Political Economy Abhijit Banerjee Nils Enevoldsen Rohini Pande Michael Walton Published 24.02.21
The unintended impacts of formal credit programmes on social networks: Evidence from India The introduction of financial institutions in communities may generate long-lasting externalities, including losses in informal social linkages Finance Abhijit Banerjee Emily Breza Arun G. Chandrasekhar Esther Duflo Matthew Jackson Cynthia Kinnan Published 17.02.21
