India’s Social Experiment: How Paying Women Directly Reshapes Welfare, Autonomy, & Politics

India's Quiet Experiment: Cash for Women's Unpaid Labor

The BBC provides a look at what it calls "one of the world's largest and least-studied social-policy experiments" unfolding in India. The idea is to give cash to women who don't have formal jobs but who run their households. More than 100 million women across 12 states now receive small...

India’s social experiment: how paying women directly reshapes welfare, autonomy, & politics

India is testing one of the world’s largest unconditional cash transfer programs for women. Here’s how the payments work and what early evidence reveals.