Yusuf Neggers

Publication

Neggers looks at effects of COVID lockdowns on Indian migrant workers

May 5, 2021

As India endures a drastic increase in COVID-19 cases, a new study sheds light on how previous lockdowns have affected some of the poorest workers in the country. A Yale University survey that tracked 5,000 migrants across north and central India f...

Neggers looks at effects of COVID lockdowns on Indian migrant workers

News

Yusuf Neggers discusses latest research with VoxDev

May 31, 2019

Ensuring voters are well informed about candidates’ backgrounds is a hot topic of late, and in India that focus is on past criminality. There, upwards of nine percent of legislators have faced criminal charges, numbing people to the potential ramific...

Yusuf Neggers discusses latest research with VoxDev

Economic Development Seminar

Having It at Hand: How Small Search Frictions Impact Bureaucratic Efficiency

Dec 6, 2018, 4:00-5:30 pm EST

3240 Weill Hall

Yususf Neggers will discuss about How Small Search Frictions Impact Bureaucratic Efficiency.

Working papers

Learning, salience, and voting: Evidence from criminal politicians in India

March 1, 2026

Siddharth George (National University of Singapore), Yusuf Neggers (University of Michigan), Sarika Gupta (World Bank)

Abstract: We study how voters process information through two experiments around Indian elections. In a large-scale experiment, we show that providing voters information about candidates' criminal charges increases votes for clean candidates and redu...

Working papers

Updating the state: Information acquisition costs and social protection delivery

September 1, 2023

Eric Dodge (IDinsight), Yusuf Neggers (University of Michigan), Rohini Pande (Yale University), Charity Troyer Moore (Yale University)

Abstract: Digital payment systems are frequently described as a means of expanding state capacity in lower-income countries; however, program performance gains may be weakened if digitization reduces (or leaves unchanged) program information availabl...

Publications

Indian female migrants face greater barriers to post-Covid recovery than males: Evidence from a panel study

November 1, 2022

Jenna Allard (Yale University), Maulik Jagnani (Tufts University), Yusuf Neggers (University of Michigan), Rohini Pande (Yale University), Simone Schaner (Center for Economic and Social Research), Charity Troyer Moore (Yale University)

Background: India's abrupt nationwide Covid−19 lockdown internally displaced millions of migrant workers, who returned to distant rural homes. Documenting their labour market reintegration is a critical aspect of understanding the economic costs of t...