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March 20th 2014

Building State Capacity: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India

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Niehaus, Paul, Muralidharan, Karthik and Sukhtankar, Sandip

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Topics in this document

Employment P-value National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 Aadhaar Smart card Welfare Economics Poverty reduction Economy Statistics Poverty Communicating sequential processes Biometrics Interest Sampling (statistics) Pension Regression analysis Bank Standard error Errors and residuals Pareto efficiency Coefficient of determination Corruption Human activities Dependent and independent variables Authentication Difference in differences

Related SDGs

SDG 1: No Poverty
SDG 1: No Poverty

Target 1.3

Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable

Target 1.4

Ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance

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10: Social Protection 10.5: Unemployment

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