Inequality in India Declined During COVID

We thank Satej Soman, Sabareesh Ramachandran, Kaushik Krishna and Mahesh Vyas for help with Consumer Pyramids Household (CPHS) data. We thank Mushfiq Mobarak, Cynthia Kinnan, Matt Notowodigdo, Viral Acharya, Satej Soman, Sabareesh Ramachandran, and seminar participants at the University of Chicago Micro Workshop, IIM Calcutta-NYU Stern India Research Conference, CAFRAL, the CPHS Research Seminar and the University of Chicago Law School for comments. We thank Sabareesh Ramachandran and Satej Soman for assistance with COVID data. Malani acknowledges funding from the Becker-Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago to purchase a subscription to the Consumer Pyramids Household Survey and the support of the Barbara J. and B. Mark Fried Fund at the University of Chicago Law School. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.