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Miscellany
The SHRUG: A new high-resolution data platform for research on India
The Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic Dataset on India (SHRUG) is a new data source that describes socioeconomic development in India. In this post, Asher, Lunt, and Novosad describe its construction and particular advantages over existing datasets for research on economic development.
Death penalty for gender-based violence: A band-aid solution for a broken system
In 2018, Government of India amended the Protection of Children against Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 and the Indian Penal Code to provide for death penalty for rape of children under 12 years of age. Shreeradha Mishra argues that while capital punishment might provide the illusion of justice, it is purely retributive in approach, and does not seek to offer any preventive solutions to tackle the problem of sexual violence.
Note from I4I Team: Happy Holidays!
We are now closed for Christmas and New Year, until Thursday, 2 January 2020. We will be back in the New Year with new articles, perspectives, notes from the field, e-symposia, explainers, videos, and podcasts. The I4I Team wishes all readers a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
A village’s journey of alcohol de-addiction due to children’s campaigning
In just two years, the alcohol addiction of an entire village could be eliminated due to the efforts of a school’s students and their teacher in Sangli district of Maharashtra. In this note, Shirish Khare highlights how this change was brought about by talking to and sharing the stories of people from the village.
What lies behind this year's economics Nobel
In this post, Maitreesh Ghatak discusses how randomised controlled trials – the use of which was pioneered by this year’s economics Nobel Laureates, Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer – have been successfully applied in real life with programmes and interventions that directly impact the poor. He contends that they can provide a much-needed corrective to the top-down approach of centralised policymaking.
Three Nobel Laureates who incited a movement
This year’s Nobel Prize for Economics has been awarded to the trio responsible for revolutionising the field of development economics: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer. In this post, Siwan Anderson discusses their pioneering work and its impact on the lives of millions of poor people across the globe. She contends that this year’s Prize is also a long-awaited acknowledgement of women in the economics profession
Helping youth discover self-identity through social purpose
‘Emerging adulthood’ refers to the transitory phase from adolescence to adulthood, when young adults are on an intense search for authenticity, awareness, personal definition, and exploration of worldviews, making it a crucial life stage for identity development. In this post, Jainetri Merchant talks about NIRMAN, an educational programme which aims to bridge the chasm between society’s problems and India’s youth who are in search for a purposeful and meaningful life.
A tribute to Marty Weitzman
Prof. Martin Weitzman who was among the most influential economists in the world passed away on 27 August 2019. His work on the uncertainty about how bad the impacts of a changed climate could be has made a huge difference to how economists think about climate change. In this post, Prof. E. Somanthan of the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre pays a tribute to him.
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