Tag Search: “migration”
Left behind or left ahead? Implications of male migration on female political engagement
In the eleventh post of I4I’s month-long campaign to mark International Women’s Day 2023, using data from both the IHDS and a survey conducted in rural Bihar, Rithika Kumar finds that migration-driven...
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Rithika Kumar
27 March, 2023
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I4I@10 | Emerging from Covid-19: Challenges and solutions
As India emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, economists will have to rethink how they understand the Indian economy in context of global volatilities. In this panel, moderated by Amartya Lahiri, Viral...
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Viral Acharya
Yamini Aiyar
Amartya Lahiri
Pronab Sen
I4I Team
10 February, 2023
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Irrigation and the spatial pattern of local economic development in India
Irrigation projects across India are intended to boost agricultural productivity and rural development. In this post, Blakeslee et al. study the long-run effects of access to irrigation on the composi...
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David Blakeslee
Aaditya Dar
Ram Fishman
Samreen Malik
Heitor Pellegrina
Karan Singh Bagavathinathan
25 January, 2023
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Urban India's housing supply response to migration-induced demand
Has urban housing supply in India kept pace with rising demand? Using Census data between 2001 and 2011, this article studies the market supply of housing in response to migration-induced housing dema...
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Arnab Datta
Sahil Gandhi
Richard Green
24 June, 2022
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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 ...
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Prashant Bharadwaj
Frances Lu
Sameem Siddiqui
09 May, 2022
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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...
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Devaki Ghose
14 March, 2022
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Role of history in shaping India’s economic development
As India is now completing 75 years of Independence, two big questions loom over the conversation around India’s economic development: How successful was the Indian economy before and during colonial ...
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Bishnupriya Gupta
Lakshmi Iyer
24 February, 2022
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Culture and development
How did human society evolve from being organised predominantly around large kin-based networks, to one with strong notions of individualism? To examine this question, Joseph Henrich (Harvard Universi...
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Patrick Francois
Joseph Henrich
17 November, 2021
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Culture and development
How did human society evolve from being organised predominantly around large kin-based networks, to one with strong notions of individualism? To examine this question, Joseph Henrich (Harvard Universi...
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Patrick Francois
Joseph Henrich
17 November, 2021
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Covid-19: Impact on migrant workers in Bihar
The nationwide lockdown – imposed in March 2020 to contain the spread of Covid-19 – left large sections of migrant workers in a precarious position, with livelihoods lost, and no means of public trans...
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Gaurav Datt
Swati Dutta
Sunil Kumar Mishra
27 October, 2021
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Covid-19 lockdown and migrant workers: Survey of vocational trainees from Bihar and Jharkhand - II
Covid-19 and the associated lockdowns have led to widespread job losses, and a subsequent exodus of migrant workers from the cities. In this note, Chakravorty et al. discuss findings from their survey...
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Bhaskar Chakravorty
Clément Imbert
Maximilian Lohnert
Poonam Panda
Roland Rathelot
Apurav Yash Bhatiya
28 July, 2021
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Covid-19: How well are government schemes supporting Bihar’s vulnerable populations?
The immediate adverse impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdown was visibly greater for migrant workers and their households, whose ability to access government schemes in their villages...
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Advaita Rajendra
Ankur Sarin
Karan Singhal
18 March, 2021
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