Tag Search: “gender”
Mirroring realities: Digital technology through the eyes of women microentrepreneurs
The expansion of markets from physical spaces to e-commerce platforms during the pandemic widened the pre-existing digital gender divide in India. Employing the method of ‘auto-photography’, the team ...
- Aneysha Roy
- 29 November, 2022
- Notes from the Field
The impact of services trade on non-tradable services in India
A share of India's service sector growth can be attributed to tradable services, which can also have positive productivity impacts on manufacturing. This article looks at the effect of services trade ...
- Besart Avdiu Ritam Chaurey Gaurav Nayyar Karan Singh Bagavathinathan
- 25 November, 2022
- Articles
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 elec...
- Ananish Chaudhuri Vegard Iversen Francesca R. Jensenius Pushkar Maitra
- 16 November, 2022
- Articles
The 10,000 FPOs scheme ignores women farmers
In this piece, Shilpa Vasavada puts forth her concern that if we don’t revisit the new Farmer Producer Organisations (FPO) guidelines with a gender lens, women in the agriculture sector will be left b...
- Shilpa Vasavada
- 04 October, 2022
- Perspectives
The future of old times
India needs to plan for a radical expansion of public support for the elderly. In this piece, Drèze and Duflo argue that near-universal social security pensions would be a good start. Elderly persons,...
- Jean Drèze Esther Duflo
- 26 September, 2022
- Perspectives
How financial access impacts women’s decision-making role in households
Government programmes which grant women access to financial support often provide assistance which is too small to significantly impact women’s economic position within the household. This article use...
- Anjini Kochar C. S. Nagabhusana Ritwik Sarkar Rohan Shah Geeta Singh
- 31 August, 2022
- Articles
To invest in sanitation or not? The role of gender differences in perceptions
Although sanitation is essential for health, many households remain without a toilet due to financial constraints. This article describes the extent to which perceptions of costs and benefits of sanit...
- Britta Augsburg Bansi Malde Harriet Olorenshaw Zaki Wahhaj
- 22 July, 2022
- Articles
'Indian Matchmaking': The marriage market penalty for working women
Despite female education rates rising, India has one of the lowest female labour force participation rates globally. Using data gathered through profiles on Shaadi.com, this article by Diva Dhar estim...
- Diva Dhar
- 08 July, 2022
- Articles
Leveraging digital labour markets to increase employment opportunities
India’s relatively young population, the pace of adoption of smartphones and digital technology, and rapid urbanisation has contributed to the growth of digital labour markets. In recent years, we hav...
- Farzana Afridi Sakshi Khurana K. Rajeswara Rao
- 28 June, 2022
- Videos
Leveraging digital labour markets to increase employment opportunities
India’s relatively young population, the pace of adoption of smartphones and digital technology, and rapid urbanisation has contributed to the growth of digital labour markets. In recent years, we hav...
- Farzana Afridi Sakshi Khurana K. Rajeswara Rao
- 28 June, 2022
- Podcasts
Hypergamy violation and domestic violence
Whether violation of hypergamy – when the wife’s economic status equals or exceeds that of her husband’s – increases or decreases domestic violence is a priori ambiguous. Analysing 2015-2016 National ...
- Gaurav Dhamija Punarjit Roychowdhury
- 27 May, 2022
- Articles
The impact of displacement on women’s marriage outcomes: Evidence from the partition of India
Women and children are made particularly vulnerable by displacement – the high incidence of gender-based violence and vulnerability to child marriage is well-documented in literature. Using data from ...
- Prashant Bharadwaj Frances Lu Sameem Siddiqui
- 09 May, 2022
- Articles