Replication Data for: Identity verification standards in welfare programs: experimental evidence from India. The dataset supports a study published in the Review of Economics and Statistics in 2025. It was last updated on April 15, 2026.
Use Cases
- Evaluate the impact of identity verification standards on program outcomes based on the experimental design.
- Analyze welfare policy implementation based on the described experimental evidence.
- Study administrative efficiency and fraud prevention based on the identity verification theme.
Strengths
- Dataset is associated with a peer-reviewed publication in the Review of Economics and Statistics.
- Last update timestamp is precisely recorded as 2026-04-15 13:42:47.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Muralidharan, Karthik; Niehaus, Paul; Sukhtankar, Sandip via Review of Economics and Statistics Dataverse.
- Collection Method
- Data likely originates from a field experiment on identity verification in welfare programs.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-15 13:42:47; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- India