Tag Search: “population”
What are the effects of India’s rapid urbanisation on women’s empowerment?
Women in urban areas, compared to their rural counterparts, are thought to enjoy greater social, economic, and political opportunities and freedoms. At the same time, research shows barriers to women’...
- Gaurav Dhamija Punarjit Roychowdhury Binay Shankar
- 28 March, 2024
- Articles
Watering the seeds of the rural economy: Evidence from groundwater irrigation in India
Over time, technological advancements accompanied with government energy subsidies have made groundwater the single largest source of irrigation in India. This study evaluates the impact of access to ...
- Camille Boudot-Reddy André Butler
- 12 January, 2024
- Articles
Impact of India’s Mission Parivar Vikas on fertility rates and family planning
India’s large-scale family planning programme, Mission Parivar Vikas, improves access to contraception, offers monetary incentives to beneficiaries for programme adoption, and disseminates information...
- Sarthak Agarwal Somdeep Chatterjee Oindrila Dey
- 06 December, 2023
- Articles
How does a ban on sex-selective abortions affect child health?
Widespread access to sex selection technologies has further skewed the male-biased sex ratio in India. However, this article suggests that the ban on prenatal sex determination may have adverse conseq...
- Aparajita Dasgupta Anisha Sharma
- 31 July, 2023
- Articles
India’s rising ruralisation defies claims of declining poverty
Building on some of the key contributions to the Great Indian Poverty Debate, Dhananjay Sinha assesses the economic transformation in India over the past few decades. He outlines the lack of private c...
- Purvi Mundhra Dhananjay Sinha
- 21 July, 2023
- Perspectives
An overview of (elder) son preference in India
In the fourth article in the Ideas@IPF2023 series, Seema Jayachandran presents key information about son preference and how it manifests as gaps in health and updates these outcomes with NFHS-5 data. ...
- Seema Jayachandran
- 13 July, 2023
- Perspectives
Ideas@IPF2023 series: NCAER’s India Policy Forum– where research meets policy
Every year, the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) hosts the India Policy Forum (IPF), a platform where economists and policymakers dissect five research ideas for their utility to ...
- Anupma Mehta
- 10 July, 2023
- Symposium
Finding the indiscernible poor: Community knowledge as a targeting approach
Varying estimates of poverty have often resulted in some deprived communities being excluded from government welfare schemes. Sabarwal and Chowdhry look at the case of Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana in Bi...
- Parikrama Chowdhry Shagun Sabarwal
- 19 June, 2023
- Perspectives
Institutionalising social audits: Lessons from Meghalaya
Sidharth Santhosh summarises key findings from Meghalaya's experience of mandating social auditing for welfare schemes, including the need for stronger coalitions between citizens and the state, and g...
- Sidharth Santhosh
- 01 June, 2023
- Notes from the Field
Hindu-Muslim fertility differentials in India: An update
Building on past research, Saswata Ghosh and Pallabi Das estimate the state- and district-level fertility differentials between Hindus and Muslims using data from the latest round of the NFHS. They sh...
- Pallabi Das Saswata Ghosh
- 18 April, 2023
- Articles
Weighty evidence? Poverty estimation with missing data
Attempts have been made to estimate poverty in India with biased survey data, by adjusting household weights to remove the bias. Based on simulation exercises with artificially contaminated household ...
- Jean Drèze Anmol Somanchi
- 10 April, 2023
- Perspectives
A data story on female child marriage in India
In the eighth post of I4I’s month-long campaign to mark International Women’s Day 2023, Shubham Mudgil and Swathi Rao from The Quantum Hub use a novel dataset based on NFHS-5 to present data highlight...
- Shubham Mudgil Swathi Ramesh Rao
- 20 March, 2023
- Perspectives