22 July, 2022Access 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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Assessing the extent and fiscal cost of teacher shortages in India
The New Education Policy has proposed that the one million teacher vacancies in public elementary schools be filled imperatively. Using 2019-20 District Information System for Education (u-DISE) data,...
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Sandip Datta Geeta Gandhi Kingdon
- 22 June, 2022
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How RSBY impacted healthcare utilisation and spending
Social Health Insurance seeks to protect the poor from high health spending, and encourage healthcare utilisation. Analysing 2004-05 and 2011-12 Indian Human Development Survey data, this article find...
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Souvik Dutta Subhasree Sarkar
- 31 March, 2022
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How to walk the talk on prioritising public health and nutrition
India accounts for more than 3 out of every 10 stunted children in the world, and the largest number of babies born with low birth weight per year.In this post, Shweta Khandelwal contends that India h...
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Shweta Khandelwal
- 09 March, 2020
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Human development in India’s Economic Survey 2019-20
Measuring changes in human development can help us understand how the economy, and well-being of a country, is changing. The chapter on human development in this year’s Economic Survey emphasises th...
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Diane Coffey Dean Spears
- 21 February, 2020
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The early advantage: Learning levels in grade 1
According to ASER 2019, children in grade 1 of government schools in India lag behind private school children in both language and numeracy skills. In this post, Wilima Wadhwa explains that children i...
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Wilima Wadhwa
- 24 January, 2020
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Learning environment as third teacher? Evidence on the impact of school infrastructure
One of the ways to ensure education quality in schools is to create education facilities that are child-centred and provide a safe, inclusive, and effective learning environment for all. In this post,...
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Diego Ambasz Tigran Shmis Maria Ustinova Kumar Vivek
- 06 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...
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Madhulika Khanna
- 04 December, 2019
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Has the National Rural Health Mission improved utilisation of maternal healthcare services in Bihar?
Bihar is a socioeconomically backward state with a persistently poor record with respect to maternal and child health indicators. Based on data from the National Sample Surveys on healthcare, this art...
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Saswata Ghosh Zakir Husain
- 18 November, 2019
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Banerjee and Duflo’s journey with Pratham
This year’s economics Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo have worked closely with education NGO Pratham in India for more than 20 years. Over time, this unique partnership of research...
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Rukmini Banerji
- 13 November, 2019
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Draft National Education Policy: Vision for out-of-school children
The draft National Education Policy released in May 2019 took a step forward by recommending an extension of the scope of the right to education act by including pre-primary and secondary education wi...
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Seema Rajput
- 11 November, 2019
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What the Swachh Bharat Mission did not change
On the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and 5th anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), Coffey and Spears discuss findings from a field survey about changes in open defecation in rura...
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Diane Coffey Dean Spears
- 02 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...
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Kanika Mahajan Sheetal Sekhri
- 01 October, 2019
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What will determine the costs of Prime Minister’s Jan Arogya Yojana?
The Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana was launched in 2018 with the aim of covering hospitalisation expenses of the vulnerable 40% of the population, to protect them against financial risk arising out ...
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Indrani Gupta Abhijit Roy
- 23 September, 2019
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Is trade with India changing Africa’s healthcare landscape?
After China, India has become the second largest trading partner with sub-Saharan Africa. The southern and western regions of Africa – which have the largest number of people living with HIV/AIDS wo...
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Siddharth Dixit Natalie Emery Chinmoy Kumar
- 20 September, 2019
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