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Upasak Das

University of Manchester
upasak.das@manchester.ac.uk

Upasak Das is a Presidential Fellow of Economics of Poverty Reduction at the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester.  He is also an affiliate of the Centre for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to this, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum. He received his Ph.D. from the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai. His primary research interests include Development Economics, Social Norms, Political Economy, and Public Policy.

Posts by Upasak Das

ग्रामीण भारत में गणित सीखने में लैंगिक अंतर

विकसित देशों में साक्ष्य के बढ़ते दायरे यह संकेत देते हैं कि गणित सीखने संबंधी परिणामों में महिलाओं के लिए प्रतिकूल स्थिति बनी रहती है और इसके संभावित कारण सामाजिक कारक, सांस्कृतिक मानदंड, शिक्षक पूर्...

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Gender difference in mathematics learning in rural India

A growing body of evidence in developed countries has indicated that female disadvantage prevails and persists in mathematics learning outcomes, with the likely causes being social factors, cultural n...

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क्या ‘वादे’ कारगर होते हैं? 'अपनी बेटी अपना धन' कार्यक्रम के दीर्घकालिक लाभों का आकलन

1994-1998 के दौरान, हरियाणा की राज्य सरकार ने बाल विवाह की समस्या के समाधान हेतु एक सशर्त नकद हस्तांतरण कार्यक्रम चलाया; जिसके तहत, समाज के हाशिए पर रहने वाले वर्गों के माता-पिता को, यदि उनकी बेटी 18 ...

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Do promises work? Assessing long-term benefits of ‘Apni Beti Apna Dhan’ programme

During 1994-1998, the state government of Haryana ran a conditional cash transfer programme to address the issue of child marriage: at the time of a daughter’s birth, parents from marginalised secti...

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क्‍या कोविड-19 के बढ़ते प्रसार में सामाजिक और आर्थिक विविधता मायने रखती है?

कोविड-19 के बढ़ते प्रसार को रोकने के लिए समुदायों को सामूहिक रूप से कार्य करने की आवश्यकता है, जो अधिक विविधत जनसंख्‍या वाले क्षेत्रों में अधिक चुनौतीपूर्ण हो सकती है। भारत से जिला-स्तरीय आंकड़ों का उ...

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‘Missing’ women in economics academia in India

Economics continues to be among the male-dominated disciplines in the US and Europe. Collating and analysing data from India on university faculty, research presentations at a major annual conference,...

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Covid-19 spread: Does social and economic diversity matter?

Arresting the spread of Covid-19 requires collective action by communities, which is likely to be more challenging in settings with high diversity. Using district-level data from India, this article e...

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Is the MNREGA fund crunch making the programme clientelistic?

Fund allocation for MNREGA has seen a steady decline in real terms over the last few years. Analysing official MNREGA data along with survey data from Rajasthan, this column shows that in the face of...

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Assessing the quality and usefulness of MNREGA assets in Maharashtra

Questions have been raised regarding the quality and usefulness of assets created under MNREGA. To examine the validity of the scepticism, this column reports results from a study of MNREGA assets in...

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How gender-inclusive is MNREGA in practice?

MNREGA mandates that a third of all workers under the programme should be women. But how gender inclusive has the implementation of the Act been? This column uses nationally representative data to an...

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Political clientelism in MNREGA: Evidence from West Bengal

The problem of political clientelism becomes imminent in decentralised systems where certain individuals or groups associated with the political party locally in power, get preferential access to sca...

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