Tag Search: “gender”
Women left behind: Gender disparities in utilisation of government health insurance
Equity in healthcare is a key goal of health policy in India. Analysing administrative data from Rajasthan, this article highlights substantial gender gaps in the utilisation of subsidised hospital ca...
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Pascaline Dupas
Radhika Jain
07 April, 2021
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Leaders and citizens: Women’s political participation in India
Women’s political participation has emerged as a key element of the discourse around the upcoming state elections in India. In this post, Nalini Gulati and Ella Spencer explore the evidence on various...
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Nalini Gulati
Ella Spencer
31 March, 2021
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Teacher-student gender matching and learning outcomes
Studies have found positive effects of teacher-student gender matching on students’ learning outcomes in certain countries. Based on a theoretical model – tested empirically with survey data from Andh...
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Sukanta Bhattacharya
Aparajita Dasgupta
Kumarjit Mandal
Anirban Mukherjee
22 March, 2021
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Matter of mobility: Barriers to women’s work and education, and the dangers at home
As countries across the world implemented lockdowns to mitigate the spread of Covid-19, both women and men have been largely confined to their homes but with differential impacts. In this post, Nikita...
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Nikita Sharma
16 March, 2021
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Gendered breadwinner norms and work decisions
The male breadwinner norm – the idea that a man must earn more than his wife – can potentially impact labour-market outcomes of married women. Using nationally representative data from India for the p...
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Sakshi Gupta
08 March, 2021
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‘Missing’ women in economics academia in India
Economics continues to be among the male-dominated disciplines in the US and Europe. Collating and analysing data from India on university faculty, research presentations at a major annual conference,...
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Upasak Das
Ambrish Dongre
Karan Singhal
05 March, 2021
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Evaluating India’s maternal cash transfer programmes
Over the years, India has implemented several programmes to overcome the issue of poor maternal and child health which can affect long-term physical and cognitive development. Using nationally represe...
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Stefan Klonner
Paula von Haaren
04 March, 2021
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International Women’s Day 2021
8 March is observed across the world as International Women’s Day. This year the theme is “choose to challenge”, focussing on the choice to challenge gender bias and inequality, celebrate women's achi...
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I4I Team
03 March, 2021
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Budget 2021-22: Healthcare takes centre stage, again
Assessing the 2021-22 Union Budget from a health-sector perspective, Coffey and Spears contend that improving India’s health outcomes will require old solutions to old problems – and this sort of thin...
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Diane Coffey
Dean Spears
24 February, 2021
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Budget 2021-22: A gender lens
Examining the 2021-22 union budget through a gender lens, Nalini Gulati discusses what the budget does – and does not do – for women in the Indian economy, particularly with respect to the digital pus...
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Nalini Gulati
02 February, 2021
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International Day of Education
24 January is observed by the United Nations as the International Day of Education, to highlight the importance of education for sustainable development and to promote universal, equitable, and inclus...
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I4I Team
22 January, 2021
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Employment entry and exit by women in India
While India’s low female labour force participation has been studied extensively in the recent literature, an aspect that has received insufficient attention is the dynamic nature of employment – that...
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Soham Sahoo
Sudipa Sarkar
19 January, 2021
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