22 July, 2022Is open defecation still prevalent in rural north India?
In an attempt to understand open defecation in four focus states in the aftermath of the Swachh Bharat Mission, Vyas and Gupta evaluate the findings of the NFHS-5. They note that the NFHS is likely to...
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Aashish Gupta Sangita Vyas 
20 January, 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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Role of ICT in Improving the Quality of Elementary School Education in Bihar
The objective of this project was to bring out the role of ICT in improving the quality of school education, integrated within pedagogical approaches taking on-board the social constraints of schoolin...
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Chirashree Das Gupta Haridas KPN
- 01 August, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Improving Access to and Measuring the Impact of Public Health Insurance in India
This project aims to add to the broad literature on improving the quality of public services by looking at the effect of providing incentives to agents for spreading information regarding a government...
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Erlend Berg Maitreesh Ghatak D Rajasekhar Sanchari Roy
- 01 April, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Improving Access to and Measuring the Impact of Public Health Insurance in India
This project aims to add to the broad literature on improving the quality of public services by looking at the effect of providing incentives to agents for spreading information regarding a government...
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Erlend Berg Maitreesh Ghatak D Rajasekhar Sanchari Roy
- 01 April, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Information Provision and the Quality of Education in Rural India
This study analyses whether providing information on the absolute and relative quality of schooling to the stakeholders affects the behaviour of service providers in both the public and the private se...
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Farzana Afridi Bidisha Barooah Rohini Somanathan
- 01 April, 2011
- IGC Research on India
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