03 March, 2017Religion and abortion: The role of politician identity
Debates surrounding abortion invoke both religion and politics. This column examines whether the religious identity of legislators influences abortion rates in the districts in which they are elected,...
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Sonia Bhalotra Irma Clots-Figueras Lakshmi Iyer 
09 April, 2018
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What happens when investments targeting women’s microbusinesses go to men?
Several studies find that male-operated – but not female-operated – microenterprises benefit from access to grants or loans. Applying the lens of household-level rather than individual-level inves...
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Arielle Bernhardt Erica Field Rohini Pande Natalia Rigol
- 02 May, 2018
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Are Indian girls more educated than their mothers?
While intergenerational educational mobility of father-son pairs in India has been documented to some extent, there is negligible analysis on how daughters compare to their mothers in terms of educati...
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Ashish Singh
- 05 September, 2018
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Enhancing women's participation in water governance
Women’s participation has become a key theme in water and sanitation projects. However, projects that have made provisions for women’s participation have yielded mixed results in terms of the qua...
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Priyam Das
- 25 February, 2015
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Women leaders and deceptive behaviour
Are women in leadership positions more dishonest than men? Based on an artefactual field experiment in rural Bihar, this column finds that women in leadership positions deceive more than men, especia...
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Lata Gangadharan Tarun Jain Pushkar Maitra Joseph Vecci
- 29 January, 2015
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Does affirmative action reduce productivity? The case of Indian Railways
Critics of job reservations argue that such policies have an adverse effect on work efficiency and productivity. This column analyses the effect of job reservations in the Indian Railways – the wor...
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Ashwini Deshpande Thomas Weisskopf
- 21 January, 2015
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Social Justice in Education: Are School Uniform and Scholarship Schemes Marred with Discrimination in Bihar?
This project evaluated on how well the attendance conditionality is being implemented in the schools of Bihar, and whether it’s marred with caste-based discrimination. The study found that the atte...
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Abhimanyu Gahlaut Chinmaya Kumar Pankaj Verma
- 31 December, 2014
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Keeping women safe
Since the December 2012 rape incident in Delhi, numerous policies have been proposed to stop the “war on women”. In this article, Rohini Pande discusses economic research, including her own, on t...
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Rohini Pande
- 24 December, 2014
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Do awareness programmes on TV help change prejudices?
Awareness-based TV programmes, such as Satya Mev Jayate hosted by Bollywood film personality Aamir Khan, aim to change deep-seated prejudices of the society. To what extent do such programmes influenc...
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Ritwik Banerjee Nabanita Dutta Gupta
- 24 November, 2014
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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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Upasak Das
- 21 November, 2014
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Did caste-based reservation increase schooling of beneficiaries?
Reservation for backward classes in schools has been in place in India since independence. This column uses a unique historical event that took place in the 1970s in India to evaluate the effect of a...
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Guilhem Cassan
- 16 October, 2014
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Social Identity and Aspirations
The project is a field experiment in India that investigates whether the norms associated with one’s social identity affect one’s aspirations, beliefs, and eventual outcomes. Project exploits cues...
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Priya Mukherjee
- 31 July, 2014
- IGC Research on India
Tell us what you really think: Measuring gender attitudes in Haryana
Changing basic gender attitudes may be crucial for alleviating discrimination against women and improving gender outcomes. This column describes a unique measurement tool developed by social psycholo...
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Diva Dhar Tarun Jain Seema Jayachandran
- 18 July, 2014
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Religion, minority status and trust
A key factor that drives segmentation in societies is group identities along various dimensions. This column seeks to understand the effects of identity on individual behaviour. Based on an artefactu...
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Minhaj Mahmud Pushkar Maitra Ananta Neelim
- 14 May, 2014
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Quotas and schooling decisions
Affirmative action, as an instrument for bridging inequalities across social groups, has been a contentious issue for decades. This column analyses the impact of reservation in public sector jobs and...
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Gaurav Khanna
- 03 April, 2014
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Unity in cricket: Integrated leagues and caste divisions
A growing body of evidence supports the idea that intergroup contact can reduce discrimination. However, different types of contact – collaborative or adversarial – may have different effects. Bas...
- Matt Lowe
- 23 May, 2018
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What happens when investments targeting women’s microbusinesses go to men?
Several studies find that male-operated – but not female-operated – microenterprises benefit from access to grants or loans. Applying the lens of household-level rather than individual-level inves...
- Arielle Bernhardt Erica Field Rohini Pande Natalia Rigol
- 02 May, 2018
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Impact of the two-child limit for local politicians
Some Indian states debar individuals with more than two children from contesting local elections. This column finds that while the law has significantly reduced fertility among the general population...
- S. Anukriti Abhishek Chakravarty
- 02 March, 2015
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