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Vegard Iversen
Vegard Iversen is a Professor in Development Economics and the Head of the Livelihoods and Institutions Department at the Natural Resources Institute of the University of Greenwich. He is also a non-resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, and a Senior Research Fellow at the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie). He is an applied microeconomist with a PhD from University of Cambridge.
Vegard joined NRI in September 2018 after 12 years living and working in India, where he was a Professor (Economics Area) at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Between 2000 and 2006, he was a tenured faculty member at the School of Development Studies (now International Development) at University of East Anglia, UK. From 2007 to 2011, he was a visiting faculty at the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. While at ISI, He worked on MNREGA in Andhra Pradesh, migration, social networks and labour markets in western Uttar Pradesh and changes in caste-based inequalities in rural India. He has also worked on social audits and on the colonial origins of agricultural development in India: recent research has focused on social mobility and on governance, politician behaviour and the workings of democracy and political institutions.
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राजनीतिक पद का समय और बेईमानी में लैंगिक अंतर: स्थानीय राजनीति से प्राप्त साक्ष्य
राजनीति में महिलाओं की हिस्सेदारी अधिक होना वर्तमान साहित्य में कम भ्रष्टाचार का संकेत माना गया है | ईमानदारी को एक अंतर्निहित या स्थिर चरित्र विशेषता के रूप में देखा जाता है। हालाँकि, पश्चिम बंगाल में निर्वाचित 400 ग्राम पंचायत सदस्यों से एकत्रित की गई जानकारी का उपयोग करते हुए किये गए इस अध्ययन से पता चलता है कि किसी राजनीतिक पद धारण करने की स्थिति में यह बदल जाता है – राजनीति में अनुभवहीन महिला राजनेताओं के पुरुषों की तुलना में बेईमान होने की संभावना कम होती है, लेकिन अनुभवी राजनेताओं के संदर्भ में यह 'लैंगिक अंतर' समाप्त हो जाता है। इस अध्ययन में इसका कारण अनुभव के साथ मजबूत राजनीतिक नेटवर्क तथा कम जोखिम की संभावना माना गया है।
Time in office and gender gap in dishonesty: Evidence from local politics
Existing literature associates a higher share of women in politics with lower corruption; honesty is viewed as an inherent or static character trait. However, using information collected from 400 elected gram panchayat members in West Bengal, this study finds that spending time in office changes this – inexperienced women politicians are less likely to be dishonest than men, but this ‘gender gap’ disappears among experienced politicians. The study attributes this to reduced risk aversion and stronger political networks with experience.
Has community monitoring helped reduce corruption in public programme delivery?
MNREGA mandates social audits of public work projects undertaken under the Act in order to empower beneficiaries to scrutinise programme expenditures, and monitor programme delivery. Has community monitoring helped reduce corruption and improve programme delivery? This column presents results from the first study that rigorously assesses the impact of India’s only large-scale community monitoring initiative - in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
Rags to riches? Understanding social mobility in India
To what extent is an individual’s status in society determined by the position of his or her parents? Analysing data from the Indian Human Development Survey, 2011-2012, this column finds that the probability of large intergenerational, occupational ascents in India is very low, and in fact, many face high risk of downward mobility.