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Victoire Girard

Nova School of Business & Economics
victoire.girard@novasbe.pt

Victoire Girard is a resident researcher at NOVAFRICA at Nova School of Business & Economics, a research affiliate at the LEO (Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orléans) at Orléans University, and a lecturer at the BRGM and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Her research interests lie in development economics and political economy. Her research relies on applied microeconometric approaches to deal with topics related to identities, inequalities, violence, and natural resources.

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/girardvictoire/ 

Posts by Victoire Girard

अत्याचार, हत्याएं व अस्पृश्यता : जाति-आधारित भेदभाव का मापन

मानवाधिकार वे अधिकार हैं जो किसी भी व्यक्ति को जन्म के साथ ही मिल जाते हैं। सरल शब्दों में इसका अर्थ है किसी भी व्यक्ति के जीवन, स्वतंत्रता, समानता और प्रतिष्ठा का अधिकार। 10 दिसंबर को हर साल मानवाधिक...

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Atrocities, murders, and untouchability: Measuring caste-based discrimination

How can we best measure inter-caste tension and discrimination in India? In this post, Victoire Girard highlights the limitations of using statistics compiled under the Prevention of Atrocities Act, w...

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When electoral quotas reduce caste-based discrimination

While affirmative action policies are widely used to tackle the underrepresentation of certain groups, their efficiency is fiercely debated. This article uses novel data from India to explore how quot...

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