20 March, 2023Sweet cash: Women’s demand for healthcare in developing countries
Agrawal et al. explore the role of gender-based preferences for demand of healthcare. Using CPHS data they find that the positive income shock – generated by a change in the mandated rates of contri...
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Shubhangi Agrawal Somdeep Chatterjee Chirantan Chatterjee 
27 April, 2023
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Phone-based assessment data: Triangulating schools’ learning outcomes
Recent research has shown that schools often report overestimated learning outcomes, as they fear adverse consequences if they report poor performance. In this post, Gupta et al. describe a pilot stud...
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Rahul Ahluwalia Vaani Chopra Saloni Gupta Niharika Gupta Azeem Panjwani Kumar Satyam Prakhar Singh
- 11 January, 2023
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Access to health insurance in India: Direct and spillover effects
Many low-income households in India have been pushed into poverty by high healthcare costs. Uptake of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana, the government-run national health insurance programme for bel...
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Gabriella Conti Cynthia Kinnan Anup Malani Alessandra Voena
- 01 July, 2022
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Beyond toilets: Improving the sanitation value chain
Besides access to toilets, proper treatment and disposal of waste is essential for effective sanitation. In this article, Sujaya Rathi - Principal Research Scientist at CSTEP who is currently involve...
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Sujaya Rathi
- 21 July, 2015
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Drafting India's new national health policy: A window of opportunity
The Indian government is working on drafting a new national health policy and designing a health assurance mission, in parallel with developing its national health accounts. In this article, Nata Men...
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Chandrakant Lahariya Nata Menabde
- 15 July, 2015
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India's national immunisation programme: Moving from policy to action
About a year ago, the Prime Minister’s Office in India announced the introduction of four new vaccines in the national immunisation programme. In this article, Chandrakant Lahariya, a public health...
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Chandrakant Lahariya
- 08 June, 2015
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Rising school enrolment, plunging test scores
Since India made eight years of education compulsory, the number of 6-14 year olds going to school has grown by almost two million. Analysing data from (undivided) Andhra Pradesh, this column finds t...
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Renu Singh
- 27 May, 2015
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Encouraging household investment in sanitation
While the detrimental effects of poor sanitation are widely known, there is disagreement about the key barriers to expanding improved sanitation coverage. This column presents results from a field ex...
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Raymond Guiteras James Levinsohn Mushfiq Mobarak
- 13 May, 2015
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A campaign to end malnutrition in Bihar
About 55% of 0-3 year old children in the state of Bihar are malnourished. In this article, Hena Naqvi, State Programme Officer at the Department of Social Welfare, Government of Bihar, describes an ...
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Hena Naqvi
- 08 May, 2015
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Getting centre-state relations right for health in India
The 14th Finance Commission has recommended devolving a greater share of revenues to states in order to give them more control over spending. In this article, Amanda Glassman and Anit Mukherjee exami...
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Amanda Glassman Anit Mukherjee
- 01 April, 2015
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How serious is the government about Swachh Bharat Mission?
The recently announced Union budget 2015-16 has reduced the central government allocation for Swachh Bharat Mission – the flagship sanitation programme of the government. In this article, Sangita V...
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Sangita Vyas
- 20 March, 2015
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Assessing teacher quality in India
Research in the US has pointed out that the most important determinant of the quality of education is the quality of teachers but that students’ achievement is not linked to observable teacher char...
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Mehtabul Azam Geeta Gandhi Kingdon
- 16 February, 2015
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Public spending on health coverage: Are we raising the right questions?
The National Health Assurance Mission – India’s first move towards Universal Health Coverage – is expected to be launched soon. In this context, this column analyses the extent, distribution an...
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Samik Chowdhury Indrani Gupta
- 13 February, 2015
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Taking education beyond educationists
ASER – Annual Status of Education Report – has been tracking learning outcomes of children in rural India for the past 10 years. In this note, Rukmini Banerji, Director of the ASER Centre/Pratham...
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Rukmini Banerji
- 09 February, 2015
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How much does India spend on elementary education?
There has been a significant policy focus on expanding elementary education in India in recent years. Yet, estimates of public and private expenditure on elementary education are not available. This ...
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Ambrish Dongre Avani Kapur
- 02 February, 2015
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