Tag Search: “gender”
The role of caste and gender in determining science education in India
Studying science at the higher secondary level is essential to pursue further STEM education in India. However, based on recent research, this article documents the prevalence of gender- and caste-bas...
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Anand Kumar
Soham Sahoo
09 November, 2023
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Making menstrual health a welfare priority: Insights from three states
Public policies on menstrual health have mainly focussed on distributing sanitary napkins to women and girls. However, in this note, Tanya Rana shares some insights gained from conversations with fron...
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Tanya Rana
05 October, 2023
- Notes from the Field
Do women leaders improve environmental outcomes? Evidence from crop fires in India
This study looks at how women leadership improves environmental outcomes. Using satellite data from India, it compares incidence of crop fires between constituencies where women narrowly won or lost e...
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Maulik Jagnani
Meera Mahadevan
03 October, 2023
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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 acces...
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Sneha Ganguly
04 September, 2023
- Perspectives
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...
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S Anukriti
Catalina Herrera-Almanza
Mahesh Karra
21 August, 2023
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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 ave...
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S Anukriti
Catalina Herrera-Almanza
Mahesh Karra
Rocío Valdebenito
18 August, 2023
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How does a ban on sex-selective abortions affect child health?
Widespread access to sex selection technologies has further skewed the male-biased sex ratio in India. However, this article suggests that the ban on prenatal sex determination may have adverse conseq...
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Aparajita Dasgupta
Anisha Sharma
31 July, 2023
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Impact of Bihar’s alcohol ban on intimate partner violence
This article examines the impact of a complete ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol in Bihar in 2016 on the incidence of intimate partner violence against women. Using NFHS data, it finds that a...
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Sisir Debnath
Sourabh Paul
Komal Sareen
27 July, 2023
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An overview of (elder) son preference in India
In the fourth article in the Ideas@IPF2023 series, Seema Jayachandran presents key information about son preference and how it manifests as gaps in health and updates these outcomes with NFHS-5 data. ...
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Seema Jayachandran
13 July, 2023
- Perspectives
Ideas@IPF2023 series: NCAER’s India Policy Forum– where research meets policy
Every year, the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) hosts the India Policy Forum (IPF), a platform where economists and policymakers dissect five research ideas for their utility to ...
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Anupma Mehta
10 July, 2023
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Women empowerment in India: Does colonial history matter?
Examining whether colonial history matters for women’s contemporary economic outcomes in India, this article shows that women who live in areas that were under direct British rule are better off in te...
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Bharti Nandwani
Punarjit Roychowdhury
22 June, 2023
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Nutritional penalty of motherhood: Can midday meals for children also improve their mothers’ health outcomes?
Midday meals provide a nutritional safety net for children and improve their learning outcomes and attendance. Nikita Sharma argues that spillover benefits might also exist for mothers of the children...
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Nikita Sharma
26 May, 2023
- Perspectives