Tag Search: “gender”
Decisions and dynamics: Unpacking the impact of contraceptive decisions on domestic violence
Women’s empowerment in the form of intra-household bargaining power, employment, and education have been documented to both reduce and increase the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV). Using...
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Karan Babbar
Manini Ojha
09 September, 2024
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Policy Roundup: Women’s safety, sub-caste quotas, Bangladesh unrest
This Policy Roundup presents I4I content pertaining to recent developments in the Indian policy landscape – highlighting the issue of women’s safety and how it affects their work participation, and th...
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Nalini Gulati
30 August, 2024
- Perspectives
Analysing gender bias in school textbooks in India
If we want girls’ education to help build gender equality, a basic first step is ensuring we are not giving children sexist textbooks. This article analyses gender bias in school textbooks in India an...
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Lee Crawfurd
Theodore Mitchell
Radhika Nagesh
Christelle Saintis-Miller
Rory Todd
23 August, 2024
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Paternalistic discrimination against women in the labour market
Women in many low-income countries are often excluded from the labour market. This article proposes a new explanation in the form of paternalistic discrimination – the preferential hiring of men to pr...
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Nina Buchmann
Carl Meyer
Colin D. Sullivan
21 August, 2024
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Harnessing machine learning to combat domestic violence in India
One in three women globally will endure a form of domestic abuse in their lifetimes – with the prevalence being even higher in South Asian countries such as India. Given the complexity of identifying ...
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Sneha Shashidhara
19 August, 2024
- Perspectives
Beneath the colours: Unveiling Holi's impact on violence against women
While social norms are considered important to the issue of violence against women (VAW), there is little research on how norms impact VAW in public places. Analysing police data from Bihar, this arti...
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Claudia Martínez
Rubén Poblete-Cazenave
07 August, 2024
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Policy Roundup: Union Budget and Economic Survey
Following the release of the latest Economic Survey of India and the first Union Budget of the new government, this Policy Roundup applies a ‘jobs’ lens to these documents – presenting key takeaways a...
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Nalini Gulati
26 July, 2024
- Perspectives
Female leadership in corporate India: Firm performance and culture
Under the Companies Act, 2013, all listed firms in India are required to have at least one woman on their board. This article finds that having at least one woman on board leads to better economic per...
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Ratna Sahay
Navya Srivastava
Mahima Vasishth
11 July, 2024
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Ideas@IPF2024 series: Research from NCAER’s India Policy Forum
Every year, National Council of Applied Economic Research hosts the India Policy Forum, a platform where economists and policymakers dissect research ideas for their relevance to public policy. Follo...
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Pradip Kumar Bagchi
10 July, 2024
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Managing India’s demographic transition
India’s population is expected to peak at about 1.7 billion in 2064, and while the current median age is only 28, the share of Indians aged 65 and above will go from 7% to 20% in the next 40 years or ...
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Farzana Afridi
Sonalde Desai
03 July, 2024
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Managing India’s demographic transition
India’s population is expected to peak at about 1.7 billion in 2064, and while the current median age is only 28, the share of Indians aged 65 and above will go from 7% to 20% in the next 40 years or ...
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Farzana Afridi
Sonalde Desai
03 July, 2024
- Podcasts
Policy Roundup: India has a new government
In the aftermath of the 2024 Lok Sabha election results, this post presents a curation of developments in the Indian policy landscape – highlighting I4I content on how coalition governments have histo...
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Nalini Gulati
18 June, 2024
- Perspectives