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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Reducing intimate partner violence: Laying the groundwork with young males
Two out of five ever-married women in Bihar have experienced marital violence. Based on a study of ‘Do Kadam Barabari Ke Ore’ – a programme imparting gender-transformative life skills to young ...
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K.G. Santhya
A.J. Francis Zavier
02 June, 2021
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Fruits of liberation? Women’s work participation and adoption of household appliances
Does increase in women’s work participation lead to greater adoption of household appliances, or is it the other way round? To address this question, this article analyses US data from the Second Wo...
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Gautam Bose
Tarun Jain
Sarah Walker
28 May, 2021
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Does gender (still) determine destiny in India?
Emerging evidence of convergence in educational attainment between girls and boys seems at odds with a large body of research on gender-based discrimination against girls in India. In this context, th...
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M. Shahe Emran
Hanchen Jiang
Forhad Shilpi
21 May, 2021
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Sex workers, stigma, and self-image: Evidence from Kolkata’s brothels
Being poor or marginalised often brings stigma, which may distort a person’s self-image, inducing sub-optimal choices and resulting in a psychological poverty trap. Based on a study conducted in Kol...
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Sayantan Ghosal
Smarajit Jana
Anandi Mani
Sandip Mitra
Sanchari Roy
13 May, 2021
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Women and work: How much does measurement matter?
Female labour force participation in India has been on the decline – dropping from an already low 29% in 2004-05 to 17% in 2017-18. However, the extent of women’s economic participation depends o...
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Milan Vaishnav
10 May, 2021
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Women’s legal rights and gender gaps in property ownership
Amendments to succession laws have sought to address gender-based discrimination in property inheritance in India. Analysing Demographic and Health Survey data, collected in about 40 countries since 2...
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Isis Gaddis
Rahul Lahoti
Hema Swaminathan
23 April, 2021
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Dowries and women’s well-being post marriage
Dowries are transfers of wealth from the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage. Analysing nationally representative survey data from rural India, this article shows that do...
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Rossella Calvi
Ajinkya Keskar
12 April, 2021
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Leaders and citizens: Women’s political participation in India
Women’s political participation has emerged as a key element of the discourse around the upcoming state elections in India. In this post, Nalini Gulati and Ella Spencer explore the evidence on vario...
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Nalini Gulati
Ella Spencer
31 March, 2021
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Social identity, health networks, and health knowledge
Health knowledge, driven by education, is a critical factor for the achievement of good health outcomes. Analysing data from the Indian Human Development Survey 2004-05, this article examines how know...
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Niels-Hugo Blunch
Nabanita Datta Gupta
17 March, 2021
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Matter of mobility: Barriers to women’s work and education, and the dangers at home
As countries across the world implemented lockdowns to mitigate the spread of Covid-19, both women and men have been largely confined to their homes but with differential impacts. In this post, Nikita...
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Nikita Sharma
16 March, 2021
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Gendered breadwinner norms and work decisions
The male breadwinner norm – the idea that a man must earn more than his wife – can potentially impact labour-market outcomes of married women. Using nationally representative data from India for t...
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Sakshi Gupta
08 March, 2021
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‘Missing’ women in economics academia in India
Economics continues to be among the male-dominated disciplines in the US and Europe. Collating and analysing data from India on university faculty, research presentations at a major annual conference,...
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Upasak Das
Ambrish Dongre
Karan Singhal
05 March, 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...
Swati Narayan
03 April, 2019
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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...
S. Anukriti
Abhishek Chakravarty
02 March, 2015
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Prevalence and evolution of dowry in India
Dowry payments are an important part of household finances in India, typically exceeding a year of earnings. This article analyses data from an all-India sample of over 70,000 marriages to document fa...
Gaurav Chiplunkar
Jeffrey Weaver
24 June, 2019
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