Identity Verification Standards in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from India
Karthik Muralidharan,Paul Niehaus,Sandip Sukhtankar — Identity Verification Standards in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from India (2025)Karthik Muralidharan; Paul Niehaus; Sandip Sukhtankar · 2025 · Article · abstractEstablishedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0841 · as of 2026-10-27 · about: Digital identity · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“Introducing stricter biometric identity verification into India's largest social protection programme reduced corruption, but 1.5-2 million legitimate beneficiaries lost access to benefits at some point during the reforms; the authors attribute the harm mainly to how the transition was managed.”
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