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Aditi Singh
Aditi Singh is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of British Columbia in Canada. Her research interests lie in the fields of cultural economics, development economics, political economy, and economic history. Prior to coming to UBC, she completed a Master’s degree in Economics from Delhi School of Economics and Bachelor’s degree from Hindu College.
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Forced male sterilisation and violence against women: Evidence from ‘Emergency India’
During 1975-1977, the Government of India introduced a programme involving forced sterilisation of men, in order to achieve population control as a poverty alleviation measure. Leveraging the varying degree of coercion employed under the programme across districts in the country, this article finds that forced vasectomies led to an increase in violence against women – effects that persist well beyond the period of the intervention.
