Seasonal Effects of Water Quality on Maternal and Infant Health in India
This project examines the impact of fertiliser agrichemicals in water on infant and child health using data on water quality combined with data on the health outcomes of infants and children from the Demographic and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilisers are applied at specific times in the gr...
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Elizabeth Brainerd Nidhiya Menon 
01 April, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Environment
Year: 2011
Improving Access to and Measuring the Impact of Public Health Insurance in India
This project aims to add to the broad literature on improving the quality of public services by looking at the effect of providing incentives to agents for spreading information regarding a government-funded health insurance programme on the level of programme knowledge and enrolment among beneficia...
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D Rajasekhar Erlend Berg Maitreesh Ghatak Sanchari Roy
- 01 April, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2011
Improving Access to and Measuring the Impact of Public Health Insurance in India
This project aims to add to the broad literature on improving the quality of public services by looking at the effect of providing incentives to agents for spreading information regarding a government-funded health insurance programme on the level of programme knowledge and enrolment among beneficia...
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D Rajasekhar Erlend Berg Maitreesh Ghatak Sanchari Roy
- 01 April, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2011
Information Provision and the Quality of Education in Rural India
This study analyses whether providing information on the absolute and relative quality of schooling to the stakeholders affects the behaviour of service providers in both the public and the private sector.
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Bidisha Barooah Farzana Afridi Rohini Somanathan
- 01 April, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2011
The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt Overhang
Developing economies have heterogeneous experiences with growth and openness. This project starts by documenting a core empirical fact: The countries that grow relatively fast do so while reducing sovereign liabilities and accumulating foreign reserves.
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Manuel Amador Mark Aguiar
- 31 March, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2011
Improving Access to Finance for Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries
One of the most important issues in developing countries is how to finance small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Although microcredit and new forms of financial inclusion are increasingly prominent in the literature, much empirical evidence shows that banks are still the main financial actors. This s...
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Leora Klapper Shawn Cole
- 31 March, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Money & Finance
Year: 2011
Federal versus Regional Control: Implications for Groundwater Resource in India
Federal versus regional control over provision of resources can have different implications for long-run sustainability of natural resources. This project examines the trade-off between short-term growth and long-term conservation incentives of elected legislators from regional and national politica...
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Sheetal Sekhri
- 31 March, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Governance
Year: 2011
Public goods, location choice and the voting decisions of the urban poor
India is currently under-urbanised relative to its income level, leading to widespread expectations of large-scale rural-to-urban migration in coming years.
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Abhijit Banerjee Anjali Bharadwaj Michael Walton Rohini Pande
- 30 March, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Urbanisation
Year: 2011
Bihar Growth in the Context of Modern Growth Theory
India’s second most populous state, Bihar, also remains one of its poorest. This project conducts a longer-term investigation into Bihar’s relatively poor productivity. It surveys the important contributions to growth theory as applied to the state.
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Areendam Chanda
- 01 March, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2011
Sugar mills: Ownership, productivity and crop choice
This project examines the effect of firm ownership structure on firm behaviour and the economic outcomes of upstream suppliers by comparing privately-owned sugar mills to cooperatives and public mills in India.
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Sandip Sukhtankar Sendhil Mullainathan
- 28 February, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2011
Making good management stick: Evidence from India
A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this, researchers ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms.
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Aprajit Mahajan David McKenzie John Roberts
- 01 December, 2010
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2010
Developing and Analyzing Firm Level Moments on Productivity and Reallocation
Productivity growth is the main driver of long-run increases in per capita income and welfare. This project investigates the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes.
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Eric J Bartelsman John Haltiwanger
- 01 September, 2010
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2010