Building resilient education systems: Evidence from five countries
With education disrupted due to the Covid-19 pandemic for over a billion children worldwide, this article emphasises the need to create an education system that is resilient and maintains continuity despite such shocks. It describes an intervention conducted across five developing countries to lever...
- Naom Angrist et al. (View all)
- 18 September, 2023
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2023
Persistent problems with PDS: An assessment of the Covid-19 ration scheme
This note summarises the findings of a survey conducted by students at IIT Delhi to evaluate the functioning of the PMGKAY scheme across Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab. It reveals that many households did not receive their entitled ration during the pandemic, and highlights disparities in the sta...
- Students of Humanities and Social Sciences Department
- 13 September, 2023
- Notes from the Field
Content Type: Notes from the Field
Topic: Poverty & Inequality
Year: 2023
Does India’s air pollution impact more than just health?
Air pollution presents a significant risk to human health in India, a fact which is now widely appreciated. Less well-known is a body of evidence suggesting that air pollution harms the day-to-day functioning of those with no diagnosable health harms, through avenues such as impaired decision-making...
- Holt Dwyer Joshua Graff Zivin Matthew Neidell Sandra Aguilar-Gomez
- 11 September, 2023
- Perspectives
Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Environment
Year: 0
Forecasting long-run Indian GDP using high-dimensional big data
This article describes an attempt to forecast of India's long-run GDP, which uses using quarterly data on macroeconomic variables from 1996-2021, and a dynamic factor model to establish long-run trends. It explains how the model controls for exogenous shocks, including rising temperatures and oil pr...
- Debajit Jha Dibyendu Maiti Naveen Kumar
- 06 September, 2023
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2023
A review of women’s engagement with digital labour market platforms
Summarising some findings from ongoing work being done as part of the DP-WEE project, Sneha Ganguly highlights how the emergence of digital labour platforms have the potential to improve women's access to jobs, reduced gendered bias in certain roles, and allow women to flexibly monetise existing ass...
- Sneha Ganguly
- 04 September, 2023
- Perspectives
Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Productivity & Innovation
Year: 2023
Making the case for a common land registry
The lack of comprehensive data on India’s common lands affects conservation, resource use and land right conflicts. Chandran & Singh highlight the need for a national common land registry to reduce information asymmetry and increase transparency. They note recent developments and progress have bee...
- Pooja Chandran Subrata Singh
- 31 August, 2023
- Notes from the Field
Content Type: Notes from the Field
Topic: Governance
Year: 2023
Growing threats to global trade
After an era of hyperglobalisation in the 1990s, there has been a clear change in policy and public attitude toward global trade. This article looks at the recent backlash against globalisation and the role that different factors played in contributing to it. It considers the effect of the pandemic ...
- Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg Tristan Reed
- 29 August, 2023
- Perspectives
Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Trade
Year: 2023
How feasible is it to phase out coal-fired power plants? Evidence from a global attitudes survey
Coal-fired power plants are a highly polluting energy source but people are either unaware or unable to convey their dissatisfaction about living with poor air quality. Using survey data from 51 low- and middle-income countries, this article calculates citizens' willingness to pay to phase-out coal ...
- Azhar Hussain Timothy Besley
- 25 August, 2023
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Environment
Year: 2023
Debt markets’ response to mandatory corporate social responsibility
To examine the response of debt holders to the Mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility, this study by Jitendra Aswani looks at debt pricing for firms impacted by the Indian Companies Act 2013 and its CSR rule. It finds that mandatory CSR counteracted the benefits accrued by other provisions of the...
- Jitendra Aswani
- 23 August, 2023
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Money & Finance
Year: 2023
Bring a friend: Leveraging financial and peer support to improve women’s reproductive agency
In the second of two articles about women’s fertility and family planning, S Anukriti et al. highlight findings which reveal that women are more likely to avail of family planning services if they are accompanied by one of their peers to the clinic. They suggest that peer support could also reduce...
- Catalina Herrera-Almanza Mahesh Karra S Anukriti
- 21 August, 2023
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2023
Convincing the Mummy-ji: Improving mother-in-law approval of family planning in India
In the first of two articles about women’s fertility and family planning, Anukriti et al. discuss the influence that mothers-in-law have on women’s access to family planning services, with them on average preferring more children and sons than the women and their husbands. They describe the effe...
- Catalina Herrera-Almanza Mahesh Karra Rocío Valdebenito S Anukriti
- 18 August, 2023
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2023
Facilitating risk-sharing through self-help groups in Bihar
While the self-help group (SHG) programme in Bihar has improved access to low-cost credit for women, this article evaluates whether it improves risk-sharing by examining differences in village-level variance of consumption growth. It finds that improvements in risk-sharing occurred only in blocks wi...
- Anjini Kochar Aprajit Mahajan Orazio Attanasio Vaishnavi Surendra
- 16 August, 2023
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Governance
Year: 2023