A family affair: Family members’ role in female employment decisions in India
A factor behind low female labour force participation in India is family members’ objection to women working. Based on an experiment in Karnataka, this article assesses whether employers can use lig...
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Joshua Dean
Seema Jayachandran
13 May, 2019
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Taking other religions seriously: A comparative survey of Hindus in India
While the study of religion in political science has re-emerged as a growing field of inquiry in the past few decades, most research still focuses on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. What religion is...
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Ajay Verghese
21 December, 2018
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The macroeconomic benefits of gender diversity
The persistent gap between female and male labour force participation comes at a significant economic cost. This article argues that because women and men complement each other in the production proce...
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Christine Lagarde
Jonathan D. Ostry
04 January, 2019
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Religion and health in early childhood: Evidence from South Asia
The widespread malnutrition of children in South Asia is persistent and troubling. Given the importance of religion in the region, this column examines the relationship between inequalities in child ...
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Elizabeth Brainerd
Nidhiya Menon
03 July, 2015
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Women's empowerment and child malnutrition in rural India
Research has found mother’s empowerment to have a positive impact on the nutrition status of their children. This column analyses this relationship for data from rural India for the period 1992-200...
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Samuel Annim
Raghav Gaiha
Katsushi Imai
Veena S. Kulkarni
19 June, 2015
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Women's economic empowerment and domestic violence
The safety of women in India – both inside and outside homes – is a major concern. This column explores the link between women’s economic empowerment, in the form of stronger inheritance rights...
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Aparna Mathur
13 March, 2015
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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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S. Anukriti
Abhishek Chakravarty
02 March, 2015
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Enhancing women's participation in water governance
Women’s participation has become a key theme in water and sanitation projects. However, projects that have made provisions for women’s participation have yielded mixed results in terms of the qua...
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Priyam Das
25 February, 2015
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Women leaders and deceptive behaviour
Are women in leadership positions more dishonest than men? Based on an artefactual field experiment in rural Bihar, this column finds that women in leadership positions deceive more than men, especia...
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Lata Gangadharan
Tarun Jain
Pushkar Maitra
Joseph Vecci
29 January, 2015
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Does affirmative action reduce productivity? The case of Indian Railways
Critics of job reservations argue that such policies have an adverse effect on work efficiency and productivity. This column analyses the effect of job reservations in the Indian Railways – the wor...
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Ashwini Deshpande
Thomas Weisskopf
21 January, 2015
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Social Justice in Education: Are School Uniform and Scholarship Schemes Marred with Discrimination in Bihar?
This project evaluated on how well the attendance conditionality is being implemented in the schools of Bihar, and whether it’s marred with caste-based discrimination. The study found that the atte...
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Abhimanyu Gahlaut
Chinmaya Kumar
Pankaj Verma
31 December, 2014
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Keeping women safe
Since the December 2012 rape incident in Delhi, numerous policies have been proposed to stop the “war on women”. In this article, Rohini Pande discusses economic research, including her own, on t...
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Rohini Pande
24 December, 2014
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Do awareness programmes on TV help change prejudices?
Awareness-based TV programmes, such as Satya Mev Jayate hosted by Bollywood film personality Aamir Khan, aim to change deep-seated prejudices of the society. To what extent do such programmes influenc...
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Ritwik Banerjee
Nabanita Dutta Gupta
24 November, 2014
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How gender-inclusive is MNREGA in practice?
MNREGA mandates that a third of all workers under the programme should be women. But how gender inclusive has the implementation of the Act been? This column uses nationally representative data to an...
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Upasak Das
21 November, 2014
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Did caste-based reservation increase schooling of beneficiaries?
Reservation for backward classes in schools has been in place in India since independence. This column uses a unique historical event that took place in the 1970s in India to evaluate the effect of a...
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Guilhem Cassan
16 October, 2014
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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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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...
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Political reservation in India: The effect on poverty
Over the last 60 years, India’s Constitution has set aside seats in parliament for people from historically discriminated groups, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. This column documents one...
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