Shekhar Mittal is a Senior Economist at Amazon. During his PhD Shekhar was interested in development and public economics. His work used large-scale government data sets to better understand government capacity, and to combine these data sets with field interventions to address questions of first-order causal interest. This work began before he joined Amazon. The views expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and cannot be attributed to Amazon Inc., its Executive Boards, or management teams.