This is a summary of a paper by Preethi Rao, Suraj Nair and Shruti Korada; published by Leveraging Evidence for Access and Development (LEAD), a unit of the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR); April 2018, 46 pages, available at:
http://ifmrlead.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/IFMR-LEAD-Demonetization-Study-Final-Report.pdf
This study reviews the short- and long-term impacts on low-income households resulting from the demonetization of Indian currency in 2016. The authors collected data