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Grandads, dads, and sons: Examining multigenerational mobility in India

While studies have examined the association in socioeconomic status between parent and offspring, there has been relatively little research on multigenerational mobility, especially in the developing country context. Analysing data from the India Human Development Survey, this article shows that the...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2021

How has the Covid-19 crisis affected the urban poor? Findings from a phone survey - III

While the devastating impact of the second Covid-19 on public health in India is well-known, there is relatively little evidence on its economic and psychological dimensions. Based on surveys in industrial clusters of Delhi, Afridi et al. examine the dynamic effects of the different phases of the pa...

  • Notes from the Field

Content Type: Notes from the Field
Topic: Poverty & Inequality
Year: 2021

Evolution of dowry in rural India: Evidence from 1960-2008

Despite being illegal since 1961, dowry continues to be a widespread phenomenon in rural India. In the first of a two-part series, this article tracks the evolution of dowry during 1960-2008 across states, and religious and social groups. It finds that as a share of household income, dowry has gradu...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2021

How dowry influences household decisions in rural India

It is widely believed that Indian parents start saving for dowry as soon as a daughter is born. In the second of a two-part series on dowry in rural India, this article examines how dowry influences household decision-making and intertemporal resource allocation and finds that as expected dowry incr...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2021

India’s ‘missing girls’: Women’s education and declining child sex-ratios

Although women’s education has been proposed as a solution to the persistent issue of ‘missing girls’ in India, studies have reached contradictory conclusions on the impact of female education on child sex ratios. Drawing on sub-district-level Census data from 2001 and 2011, this article shows...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2021

Covid-19: Does obesity play a role?

Overnutrition is a major public health issue in India. Being overweight or obese has been linked to the development of health conditions that make individuals more susceptible to severe illness due to Covid-19. Using district-level data on Covid-19 and anthropometric data from National Family Health...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2021

A decade of credit collapse in India

The government and the Central Bank have undertaken various measures to protect the banking and finance sector from the adverse impact of the Covid-19 crisis. However, despite historically low interest rates, credit growth has been rather low in recent quarters. In this post, Harsh Vardhan discusses...

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Money & Finance
Year: 2021

The changing demand for welfare in rural Pakistan

The proliferation of cash transfer programmes in developing countries has raised concern regarding a crowding-out effect on citizens' demands for investment in universal public services. Based on a household survey in rural Pakistan, this article shows that this is not necessarily true. It notes imp...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Poverty & Inequality
Year: 2021

Lineage norms and women’s political participation

While reservation for local political representation of women has made major headway, this has not addressed the structural problems that prevent the full incorporation of women into politics. Based on a study in the Northeastern state of Meghalaya, this article shows that control over wealth is a ...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2021

The Covid-19 crisis and food security

India’s national lockdown in 2020, imposed to contain the spread of Covid-19, threw millions of people out of work and sharply reduced earnings for those who remained employed. Based on data from multi-state surveys, Drèze and Somanchi highlight the devastating impact of the pandemic on food secu...

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Poverty & Inequality
Year: 2021

India’s service-led economic growth

Structural transformation that involves a shift from agriculture straight to services, is a cause of concern to many scholars as an expanding service sector might be a pale substitute to technical progress in manufacturing as the main engine of growth. Analysing microdata from India for 1987-2011, t...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2021

Leveraging global supply chains to fight Covid-19

When the second wave of Covid-19 hit India, the health catastrophe was compounded by shortages of oxygen, medical equipment, and life-saving drugs. In this post, C Veeramani and Anwesha Basu contend that contrary to the Indian government’s Atmanirbhar or self-reliance stance, relying on global sup...

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Trade
Year: 2021