Contributor : Profile

Posts by Punarjit Roychowdhury

What are the effects of India’s rapid urbanisation on women’s empowerment?

Women in urban areas, compared to their rural counterparts, are thought to enjoy greater social, economic, and political opportunities and freedoms. At the same time, research shows barriers to women...

  • Articles

भारत में महिलाओं का सशक्तिकरण : क्या औपनिवेशिक इतिहास मायने रखता है?

क्या औपनिवेशिक इतिहास भारत में महिलाओं के समकालीन आर्थिक परिणामों की दृष्टि से मायने रखता है? इसकी जांच करते हुए यह लेख इस बात की ओर इशारा करता है कि जो क्षेत्र सीधे ब्रिटिश शासन के अधीन रहा, महिला सश...

  • लेख

Women empowerment in India: Does colonial history matter?

Examining whether colonial history matters for women’s contemporary economic outcomes in India, this article shows that women who live in areas that were under direct British rule are better off in ...

  • Articles

उच्च वर्ग में विवाह (हाइपरगैमी) का अभाव और घरेलू हिंसा

उच्च वर्ग में विवाह (हाइपरगैमी) के अभाव - जब पत्नी की आर्थिक स्थिति उसके पति के बराबर या अधिक होती है, में क्या घरेलू हिंसा में वृद्धि होती है या कमी आती है, इसके बारे में प्राथमिक रूप से अस्पष्टता है...

  • लेख

Hypergamy violation and domestic violence

Whether violation of hypergamy – when the wife’s economic status equals or exceeds that of her husband’s – increases or decreases domestic violence is a priori ambiguous. Analysing 2015-2016 N...

  • Articles

Food insecurity and child malnutrition: New empirical evidence from India

Child malnutrition is among the most pressing public health issues in India today. Equally alarming is the country’s food security crisis. Analysing ‘Young Lives Survey’ data from the states of ...

  • Articles

Dynamics of achievement gap between public and private school students

The achievement gap between public and private school students is well-documented in the literature on education in India, but there has not been sufficient focus on the dynamics of this gap over time...

  • Articles

शादी के समय महिलाओं की उम्र घरेलू हिंसा को कैसे प्रभावित करती है?

दुनिया भर में तीन में से एक महिला अपने जीवनकाल में घरेलू हिंसा से प्रभावित होती है। जो महिलाएं घरेलू हिंसा का सामना करती हैं, उन्हें गंभीर प्रतिकूल स्वास्थ्य परिणामों से प्रभावित होने के साथ-साथ भारी ...

  • लेख

Economic mobility in India: Estimation using ‘noisy’ data

There has been a dramatic rise in inequality in India post-liberalisation. This article finds economic mobility to be markedly low, with at least seven out of 10 poor households remaining poor or at-r...

  • Articles

How women’s age at marriage impacts domestic violence

Domestic violence affects one in three women in their lifetime worldwide, and has serious adverse health and economic consequences. Analysing data from the latest National Family Health Survey of Indi...

  • Articles