Emily Rains
Duke University
11 Papers
16 Citations
Emily Rains is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Slum & Population. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 7 publications.
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Papers
Combining satellite and survey data to study Indian slums: evidence on the range of conditions and implications for urban policy:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that most of the global growth in population in the next few decades will be in urban centres in Asia and Africa, where most of these additional urban residents will be concentrated.
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“It’s Like Night and Day”: How Bureaucratic Encounters Vary across WIC, SNAP, and Medicaid
TL;DR: This article examined how people differentiate their experiences across public assistance programs and found that WIC staff members describe the program as facilitating, rather than constraining, personal interactions with clients, leading several caseworkers to express frustration and suspicion of the information provided by recipients.
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Rethinking barriers to electrification: Does government collection failure stunt public service provision?
Emily Rains,Ronald Abraham +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a randomized controlled trial was conducted to evaluate the impact of offering an incentive to local contractors to collect revenues in rural Bihar, India, and the program made significant improvements among small, hard to reach consumers billed on minimum monthly charges.
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Will urbanization raise social mobility in the South, replicating the economic history of the West?
Emily Rains,Anirudh Krishna +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review empirical evidence on the potential for social mobility in today's urban slums in order to assess prospects for upward mobility in cities of the Global South and assess whether slum residents will ultimately share in the benefits of the cities they help build or will remain trapped in poverty.
An evolving threat to life and livelihoods: comparing the health, economic and political implications of the first two waves of COVID-19 in Bengaluru and Patna slums
TL;DR: In this article , the economic and health impacts of the first two major waves of the pandemic in Bengaluru and Patna, as well as respondents' attitudes towards the government's response are investigated.
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