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Debayan Pakrashi

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
pakrashi@iitk.ac.in

Dr Debayan Pakrashi is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. He is an applied microeconomist interested in behavioural, health and economic development. Prior to joining the Behavioural Science Centre at the University of Stirling as a post-doctoral researcher, he was an Australian Research Council (ARC) Research Scholar, working on the Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI) project at the University of Queensland, funded by the Australian Research Council, the Ford Foundation, the World Bank, and the German Labour Institute. He received the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research Higher Degree Thesis and the Australian Alumni Excellence Award India under the Young Achiever category for his work in 2015. Currently, he is working on several research projects in India and Bangladesh with leading experts in the field of behavioural economics and impact evaluation.

Posts by Debayan Pakrashi

Using personalised information delivery to improve uptake of emergency government benefits

Although many governments introduced additional benefits as part of existing welfare schemes for Covid-19 relief, there is often a significant gap between the introduction of, and access to these bene...

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भेदभाव में लिंग-जाति अंतर्विरोध: क्या मरीज़ डॉक्टर की सामाजिक पहचान की परवाह करते हैं?

भारत में सामाजिक पहचान पर आधारित भेदभाव व्यापक रूप में फैला होने की वजह से, भेदभाव में जाति-लिंग अंतर्विरोध के अध्ययन हेतु एक अनूठी सेटिंग उपलब्ध होती है। यह लेख, उत्तर प्रदेश में किये गए एक क्षेत्रीय...

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Gender-caste intersectionality in discrimination: Do patients care about doctor’s social identity?

Due to widespread prevalence of discrimination based on social identity, India provides a unique setting for studying caste-gender intersectionality in discrimination. Based on a field experiment in U...

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कोविड-19 और मानसिक स्वास्थ्य: टेलीकाउंसलिंग के माध्यम से महिलाओं की मानसिक स्थिति में सुधार लाना

कोविड-19 जैसी सार्वजनिक स्वास्थ्य आपात स्थिति के कारण परिवार में निम्न सामाजिक-आर्थिक स्थिति, देखभाल की अधिक जिम्मेदारियां, और जीवन-साथी द्वारा हिंसा के खतरे के चलते महिलाओं में मानसिक स्वास्थ्य की ...

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Covid-19 and mental health: Improving women’s mental well-being via telecounselling

Public health emergencies such as Covid-19 disproportionally cause mental health problems among women due to factors such as their inferior socioeconomic position in the household, greater care respon...

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जागरूकता और आत्म-रक्षा प्रशिक्षण के माध्यम से महिलाओं के खिलाफ हिंसा का सामना करना

राष्ट्रीय अपराध रिकॉर्ड ब्यूरो की 2019 की रिपोर्ट के अनुसार, महिलाओं के प्रति हिंसा में 2018 की तुलना में 7.3% की वृद्धि हुई है जिसमें तीन में से एक महिला शारीरिक, भावनात्मक या यौन हिंसा की शिकार होती...

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Countering violence against women with awareness creation and self-defence training

The 2019 National Crime Records Bureau report shows a 7.3% increase, compared to 2018, in violence against women, with one in three women being subject to physical, emotional, or sexual violence. In t...

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Covid-19: Addressing stigma and misconceptions

Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic in India, there has been stigmatisation of patients and their families, and discriminatory attitudes towards marginalised groups as well as frontline workers. Based on...

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Can microcredit improve food security among the rural poor?

A core objective of microcredit in Bangladesh is to make the rural poor more food secure. To what extent has this been achieved? Analysing household data from Bangladesh, this column finds that parti...

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