Augmenting State Capacity for Child Development: Experimental Evidence from India

We thank the Government of Tamil Nadu especially S. Krishnan, L. Manivasan, and R. Kannan for their support for this project. We also thank Aparna Krishnan, Gautam Patel, Megha Pradhan, and Prakarsh Singh for their support at various stages of this project. We thank Larry Aber, Prashant Bharadwaj, Gordon Dahl, Jishnu Das, Purnima Menon, Jayashree Raghunandan, Mauricio Romero, Abhijeet Singh, Sharon Wolf, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, and several seminar participants for comments. Shruti Agarwal, Tanay Balantrapu, Aditi Bhowmick, Sharnic Djaker, Smit Gade, Nandini Gupta, Putul Gupta, Murali Mallikarjunan, Nihal Ranjit, Dhananjay Singh, Sivaranjani Sivamohan, and Anuja Venkatachalam provided excellent research assistance and field support. This study was registered with the AEA Trial Registry (RCT ID: AEARCTR-0001772). It was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of the University of California, Berkeley and San Diego and the Institute for Financial Management and Research. We thank the Government of Tamil Nadu and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) for funding this study. All views expressed are those of the authors and not of the National Bureau of Economic Research or any of the institutions with which they are affiliated.

• May 5, 2021