Tag Search: “higher education”
High scoring but poor: The misallocation of talent in higher education
As labour market returns to college education have increased, more young adults now receive some form of higher education than ever before. Yet, college attendance remains low for children from poor s...
- Andres Yi Chang Jishnu Das Abhijeet Singh
- 08 September, 2022
- Articles
In extremity and externality: Need for policies to protect children from environmental crises
Despite the undeniable threats of climate change, little consideration has been given to creating social safety nets for the vulnerable or engendering resilience in institutions disrupted by extreme c...
- Nikita Sharma
- 05 June, 2022
- Perspectives
Trade, internal migration, and human capital: Who gained from India’s IT boom?
The Indian economy experienced trade expansion and an IT boom during 1993-2004. How did the spectacular growth in a high skill-intensive sector – concentrated in a few big cities – affect inequality a...
- Devaki Ghose
- 14 March, 2022
- Articles
Do promises work? Assessing long-term benefits of ‘Apni Beti Apna Dhan’ programme
During 1994-1998, the state government of Haryana ran a conditional cash transfer programme to address the issue of child marriage: at the time of a daughter’s birth, parents from marginalised section...
- Shreya Biswas Upasak Das
- 03 November, 2021
- Articles
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 ...
- Anustup Kundu Kunal Sen
- 05 July, 2021
- Articles
Does gender (still) determine destiny in India?
Emerging evidence of convergence in educational attainment between girls and boys seems at odds with a large body of research on gender-based discrimination against girls in India. In this context, th...
- M. Shahe Emran Hanchen Jiang Forhad Shilpi
- 21 May, 2021
- Articles
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...
- Nikita Sharma
- 16 March, 2021
- Perspectives
‘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,...
- Upasak Das Ambrish Dongre Karan Singhal
- 05 March, 2021
- Articles
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...
- I4I Team
- 03 March, 2021
- Perspectives
Caste gaps in behaviour and personality traits: A study of university students
While numerous studies have examined gaps in health and educational outcomes across castes, there is little evidence on caste gaps in behavioural preferences and personality traits. Based on incentivi...
- Utteeyo Dasgupta Subha Mani Smriti Sharma Saurabh Singhal
- 04 December, 2020
- Articles
Preferences or expectations? Understanding the gender gap in choice of college majors
A multidisciplinary literature – mostly focused on the US – shows that choice of majors among college students is gendered, and females are particularly under-represented in math-intensive fields. Bas...
- Aparajita Dasgupta Anisha Sharma
- 23 October, 2020
- Articles
Disparity in access to quality education and the digital divide
On account of the Covid-19 pandemic, most educational institutions in India have adopted online teaching as a solution to offset huge deficits in instruction hours. However, citizens who do not have d...
- Sabir Ahamed Md. Zakaria Siddiqui
- 09 July, 2020
- Perspectives