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...
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Nina Buchmann
Erica Field
Rachel Glennerster
Shahana Nazneen
Xiao Yu Wang
04 March, 2022
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Introduction to e-Symposium: Urbanisation, gender, and social change in north India
Urbanisation in India is reshaping established social and economic patterns of behaviour, in ways that scholars are yet to fully comprehend. India’s rapid urbanisation invites several pressing quest...
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Devesh Kapur
Neelanjan Sircar
Milan Vaishnav
06 December, 2021
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Is OBC reservation good for development?
The affirmative action debate has always been riddled by the question of merit versus social justice, and discussions around having a caste census have once again reignited the controversy around rese...
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Poulomi Chakrabarti
20 October, 2021
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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 fro...
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Prashant Bharadwaj
Frances Lu
Sameem Siddiqui
09 May, 2022
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Caste inequalities within socio-religious groups: Evidence from Uttar Pradesh
The Mandal Commission and Sachar Committee reports, among others, have indicated the existence of caste inequalities within the four major caste groups. However, data on this subject remain limited. U...
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Srinivas Goli
Chhavi Tiwari
20 April, 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...
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Nina Buchmann
Erica Field
Rachel Glennerster
Shahana Nazneen
Xiao Yu Wang
04 March, 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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Sumitra Badrinathan
Deepaboli Chatterjee
Devesh Kapur
Neelanjan Sircar
10 December, 2021
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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...
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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 cluste...
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Vidisha Mehta
Harish Sai
08 December, 2021
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Urbanisation, gender, and social change: Why is female labour force participation so low in India?
India’s low female labour force participation is a complex social phenomenon, resulting from – among other things – patriarchal norms, rural-urban transitions, and a mismatch of supply and deman...
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Deepaboli Chatterjee
Neelanjan Sircar
06 December, 2021
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Introduction to e-Symposium: Urbanisation, gender, and social change in north India
Urbanisation in India is reshaping established social and economic patterns of behaviour, in ways that scholars are yet to fully comprehend. India’s rapid urbanisation invites several pressing quest...
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Devesh Kapur
Neelanjan Sircar
Milan Vaishnav
06 December, 2021
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Empowering women through participatory theatre
Twenty-nine percent of women in India report having suffered intimate-partner violence. Based on a field study involving 92 villages in the state of West Bengal, this article shows that community-base...
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Karla Hoff
Jyotsna Jalan
Sattwik Santra
25 November, 2021
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Inter-gender and intra-gender gaps in land ownership in India
While women’s landownership is recognised as a key indicator of their economic empowerment, there are no detailed estimates of how many and which women own land in India. Analysing longitudinal data...
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Bina Agarwal
Pervesh Anthwal
Malvika Mahesh
24 November, 2021
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Sex ratios and religion in India and South Asia
In South Asia, low child sex ratios are increasingly an isolated Indian phenomenon. Within India, child sex ratios are ‘normal’ among Christians and Muslims but much lower among Hindus, Sikhs, and...
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Impact of the two-child limit for local politicians
Some Indian states debar individuals with more than two children from contesting local elections. This column finds that while the law has significantly reduced fertility among the general population...
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Prevalence and evolution of dowry in India
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