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Pragya Bhuwania
Pragya Bhuwania is a postdoctoral researcher at the WORLD Policy Analysis Center based at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She works on estimating the causal effects of laws, policies, and programmatic interventions on women and children in developing countries. Her research interest lies at the intersection of applied microeconomics, health, gender, and development.
Previously, she was a Maternal and Child Health Equity (MACHEquity) Fellow, jointly held at McGill Institute for Health & Social Policy and IIM Bangalore, where she extensively worked on impact evaluations of national- and state-level policies in India. She received her PhD in Health Policy and Management from UCLA, MSc in Statistics from the University of Oxford, and BA in Economics from Delhi University.
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Mahila Samakhya: Women’s education through empowerment
While girls are now at par with boys in school enrolment, they continue to lag behind in terms of the number of years spent in formal education. In this context, this article assesses the impact of the ‘Mahila Samakhya’ programme – which sought to empower women within local communities in rural India in order to challenge traditional gender roles that may be restricting girls’ education – on educational gains.
