Tag Search: “gender”
Hypergamy violation and domestic violence
Whether violation of hypergamy – when the wife’s economic status equals or exceeds that of her husband’s – increases or decreases domestic violence is a priori ambiguous. Analysing 2015-2016 National ...
- Gaurav Dhamija Punarjit Roychowdhury
- 27 May, 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 ...
- Prashant Bharadwaj Frances Lu Sameem Siddiqui
- 09 May, 2022
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Does increasing female representation in school management improve school quality?
The 2009 Right to Education Act (RTE) mandated public and private aided schools to constitute School Management Committees (SMCs) to improve accountability in schools through community participation. ...
- Chandan Jain Bharti Nandwani
- 18 April, 2022
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How cleaner cookstoves and fuels could benefit women’s health and the environment
With lesser access to financial resources and greater domestic responsibilities, women face the brunt of the climate change crisis. In particular, women are more affected by indoor air pollution cause...
- Siobhan Siu Bai McDonough Nikita Sharma
- 07 March, 2022
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A signal to end child marriage: Evidence from Bangladesh
Child marriage remains common even where female schooling and employment opportunities have grown. Based on a field study in Bangladesh, this article seeks to experimentally evaluate the impact of a f...
- Nina Buchmann Erica Field Rachel Glennerster Shahana Nazneen Xiao Yu Wang
- 04 March, 2022
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Improving public service delivery by fixing payment systems
Fixing how funds flow through the government systems grabs far fewer headlines than malnutrition, problems in the education sector, or crumbling infrastructure. In this post, Charity Troyer Moore cont...
- Charity Troyer Moore
- 28 January, 2022
- Perspectives
Gender difference in mathematics learning in rural India
A growing body of evidence in developed countries has indicated that female disadvantage prevails and persists in mathematics learning outcomes, with the likely causes being social factors, cultural n...
- Upasak Das Karan Singhal
- 24 January, 2022
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Who benefits from indoor piped drinking water supply? A gender analysis
In India, there is limited access to indoor piped drinking water (IPDW) in households, and this has a disproportionate impact on women as they bear the burden of fetching water. Using 2005-2012 India ...
- Ashish Sedai
- 17 January, 2022
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Gender-caste intersectionality in discrimination: Do patients care about doctor’s social identity?
Due to widespread prevalence of discrimination based on social identity, India provides a unique setting for studying caste-gender intersectionality in discrimination. Based on a field experiment in U...
- Asad Islam Debayan Pakrashi Soubhagya Sahoo Liang Choon Wang Yves Zenou
- 12 January, 2022
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Urbanisation, gender, and social change: Role of the media in shaping women’s political preferences
What is the role of information sources in forming political preferences, and under what conditions do women have the cognitive agency to form political opinions distinct from men? To examine this, us...
- Sumitra Badrinathan Deepaboli Chatterjee Devesh Kapur Neelanjan Sircar
- 10 December, 2021
- Perspectives
Urbanisation, gender, and social change: Intra-marital hierarchies and perceptions about working mothers
Women in India spend thrice as much time doing unpaid domestic work compared to the men in their household, and twice as much time on care-giving activities for children and dependent adults. Based on...
- Shubhangi Karia Tanvi Mehta
- 09 December, 2021
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Urbanisation, gender, and social change: Women’s mobility in north India
Although India has experienced structural and social changes that promote gender equality in many respects, women’s physical mobility remains very low. Analysing primary data from three urban clusters...
- Vidisha Mehta Harish Sai
- 08 December, 2021
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