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Making sense of the 2024 Economics Nobel

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”. In this post, Pulapre Balakrishnan evaluates the econometric approach and representation of colonialism – as linked to institutions – in so...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Miscellany
Year: 2024

Economics Nobel 2024: Igniting discussion beyond the academy

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”. In this post, Patrick Francois contend that the contribution of the laureates lies in opening up a whole new set of facts from history, to chan...

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Miscellany
Year: 2024

Competitive jobseekers: When sharing less leaves firms at a loss

For efficient matching of jobs and workers in the labour market, it is essential that information on job postings reaches suitable jobseekers. While social networks play a key role in this regard, competition for jobs may disincentivise information-sharing. Based on an experiment with college studen...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2024

Policy Roundup: Delhi smog, US immigration, industrial policy

This post presents our monthly curation of developments in the Indian policy landscape – highlighting I4I (and IGC) content pertaining to Delhi’s seasonal smog problem, anti-pollution and adaptation measures, high-skilled migration from India to the US, and steps being taken by Indian states to ...

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Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Miscellany
Year: 2024

Road to empowerment: Rural roads programme and women's outcomes

Lack of spatial mobility is recognised as a critical constraint on women's socioeconomic participation. This article presents findings from a study examining the impact of India’s rural roads programme, on women’s outcomes. While the construction of all-weather roads alleviates women’s mobilit...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2024

Street safety and girls’ secondary schooling in India

Street harassment in India is still a constraint on women's education, dimming their future. Analysing the case of ‘SHE teams’ in the state of Telangana, this article shows that the introduction of special police units dedicated to women's safety on streets led to a significant increase in girls...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2024

Contraception as a pathway to better child nutrition and health

India is home to one-third of the world’s stunted children, and half of all under-five mortality can be attributed to undernutrition. Existing literature has shown an association between larger families and poorer child health outcomes. Based on analysis of data from the National Family Health Sur...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2024

Ashok Kotwal Memorial Lecture: Rohini Pande on 'Regulating Carbon Emissions through Nature-based Solutions'

We invite you to join us on 11 December 2024, for the third annual Ashok Kotwal Memorial Lecture. This year, the lecture will be delivered by Professor Rohini Pande, who will draw on insights gained from the design of pollution compliance markets and environmental audits in India, to discuss how the...

  • Editors Corner

Content Type: Editors Corner
Topic: Miscellany
Year: 2024

The agricultural productivity gap: Informality matters

There are various explanations in the literature for the observed productivity gap between agriculture and other sectors, in developing countries. Using Indian data, this article questions the standard view of the two-sector productivity gap. It shows that while the productivity gap between the farm...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Agriculture
Year: 2024

Female legislators and forest conservation

While women are known to be more concerned about the environment than men, do these preferences translate into action when women hold political power? This article shows that in constituencies reserved for historically marginalised communities, when female politicians win close races against male ca...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Environment
Year: 2024

Fiscal transfers and natural calamities: Does political alignment matter?

Fiscal transfers from the central government serve as an important mechanism for state governments to mitigate adverse impacts of extreme climate events. This article demonstrates that higher allocations are made to states that are politically aligned with the Centre. Further, the scope for such par...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Governance
Year: 2024

Financing the climate transition of India’s power sector

A cornerstone of India’s climate transition plan is to shift towards a high-efficiency, low-emission power sector. In this post, Vardhan and Tilotia outline the investment and financing challenges associated with such a shift, by consolidating existing projections under various scenarios for the p...

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Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Environment
Year: 2024