Tag Search: “gender”
IGC Special Lecture: To be or not to be
In December 2019, an international conference on ‘Closing the gender gap: Health, education and economic opportunities’ was held at Patna, Bihar. Development economist and activist, Devaki Jain, deliv...
- Devaki Jain
- 06 January, 2020
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The missing women in finance
Women comprise a very small proportion of the financial industry workforce, and this has implications on the way female clients use and benefit from financial services. This article discusses if the f...
- Renana Jhabvala Soumya Kapoor Mehta Sonal Sharma
- 13 December, 2019
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The precocious period: Impact of early menarche on schooling in India
In socio-cultural contexts onset of menstruation (menarche) adversely affects educational attainments of girls. This article shows that onset of menses before age 12 causes a 13% decrease in school en...
- Madhulika Khanna
- 04 December, 2019
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Empowering women through direct digital wage payments
India’s rate of female labour force participation dropped from 37% in 1990 to 28% in 2015. Can greater control over earned income incentivise women to work and influence gender norms? This article dis...
- Erica Field Charity Troyer Moore Rohini Pande Natalia Rigol Simone Schaner
- 29 November, 2019
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Creating safe public spaces for women and alcohol consumption in bars
Bars provide on-premise alcohol consumption and serve as social drinking spaces. Kerala, in 2014, shut down all bars serving hard liquor in the state. This article examines the policy change and wheth...
- Saloni Khurana Kanika Mahajan
- 25 November, 2019
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Fifteen years of gender budgeting in India: A Retrospective
In this year’s Union Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that she will constitute a committee to evaluate 15 years of gender budgeting. It entails looking at the budget through the g...
- Ashok Lahiri
- 29 October, 2019
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Access to toilets and public safety of women
Launched on 2 October 2014, Swachh Bharat Mission aimed to increase the proportion of rural households with access to a toilet from 38.8% to 100% by 2019. In the run-up to Gandhi Jayanti and the 5th a...
- Kanika Mahajan Sheetal Sekhri
- 01 October, 2019
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Closing gender gaps in India: Does increasing women’s access to finance help?
Gender gaps in women’s economic opportunities – in the labour market and in entrepreneurship – have remained high in India. This article analyses the macroeconomic impact of closing gender gaps in acc...
- Purva Khera
- 16 August, 2019
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Why do parents invest in girls’ education? Evidence from rural India
Adolescent girls in rural Rajasthan frequently leave education early and marry young. This article develops a novel methodology to elicit average parental preferences over a daughter's education and a...
- Abigail Adams Alison Andrew
- 07 August, 2019
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Inequality of opportunity among Indian women
Inequality of opportunity (IOp) in any society is that part of overall inequality which arises from factors beyond an individual’s control such as parental education, caste, gender, religion etc. This...
- Akanksha Choudhary Gowtham Muthukkumaran Ashish Singh
- 05 August, 2019
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Prevalence and evolution of dowry in India
Dowry payments are an important part of household finances in India, typically exceeding a year of earnings. This article analyses data from an all-India sample of over 70,000 marriages to document fa...
- Gaurav Chiplunkar Jeffrey Weaver
- 24 June, 2019
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Women’s work and fertility: Evidence from 200 years, 103 countries
The declining rates of female labour force participation in developing countries in the last two decades have led researchers to focus on the role of fertility in women’s labour supply decisions. Usin...
- Daniel Aaronson Rajeev Dehejia Andrew Jordan Cristian Pop-Eleches Cyrus Samii Karl Schulze
- 03 June, 2019
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