Enhancing secondary school learning: Role of remedial camps and teacher flexibility
A key dilemma in Indian education is that while children are enrolled in school, they are not actually learning. Based on an experiment in Odisha, this article explores possible solutions to the learn...
- Sabrin Beg Anne Fitzpatrick Jason Kerwin Adrienne Lucas Khandker Wahedur Rahman
- 08 April, 2024
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Second Ashok Kotwal Memorial Lecture: Inequality, Labour and Social Democracy
The Ashok Kotwal Memorial Lecture was instituted in 2022, in memory of our founding Editor-in-Chief, as an annual lecture on key issues of development. For its second edition, I4I hosted Professor Pra...
- Pranab Bardhan I4I Team
- 20 December, 2023
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Economic development, the nutrition trap, and metabolic disease
Two recently documented facts run counter to the conventional wisdom that economic development leads to better health: the absence of a clear link between income and nutritional status in developing c...
- Nancy Luke Kaivan Munshi Anu Mary Oommen Swapnil Singh
- 10 January, 2022
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Does early motherhood impact the development of children?
According to a new UNFPA report, the Covid-19 pandemic might cause 13 million additional child marriages – a key driver of early motherhood. Using panel data from South India, this article shows tha...
- Marta Favara Marcello Pérez-Alvarez
- 29 October, 2020
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Preferences or expectations? Understanding the gender gap in choice of college majors
A multidisciplinary literature – mostly focused on the US – shows that choice of majors among college students is gendered, and females are particularly under-represented in math-intensive fields....
- Aparajita Dasgupta Anisha Sharma
- 23 October, 2020
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Teacher accountability: Non-teaching work over classroom engagement
While the Right to Education Act, 2009 mandates 200 days of teaching for primary classes, the actual number seems to be much lower in government schools. Based on qualitative fieldwork and a survey in...
- Indira Patil
- 22 October, 2020
- Notes from the Field
Locked out of critical care: Covid-19 lockdown and non-Covid mortality
India’s 10-week long national lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19 was among the most severe in the world. This article investigates the effects of the lockdown restrictions on healthcare acce...
- Pascaline Dupas Radhika Jain
- 01 October, 2020
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Covid-19: How the pandemic evolved in Kerala over the 'unlock' phases
Kerala, the state with the largest number of Covid-19 cases when India entered the lockdown on 25 March, had only 16 active cases on 20 May. However, the second wave of the pandemic in the state, coin...
- Benston John
- 29 September, 2020
- Perspectives
On India’s ‘low’ Covid-19 case fatality rate
India’s Covid-19 case fatality rate is impressively low at 1.7%, compared to the world average of 4%. This apparently superior performance could, however, simply be a product of three factors: the c...
- Minu Philip Debraj Ray S. Subramanian
- 22 September, 2020
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Integrating technology into education systems: Lessons from Jharkhand
Ideas to improve the performance of India’s school system, many of which involve the use of information and communication technology, have been proposed and implemented with varying degrees of succe...
- Pradyumna Bhattacharjee Avinav Kumar Subha Mani Kumar Vivek
- 01 September, 2020
- Notes from the Field
School choice in rural India: Perception versus reality
School choice has increased significantly in India – with growth of low-fee private schools – and this is considered important within a market-based approach to schooling. Based on a field study a...
- Rahul Lahoti Rahul Mukhopadhyay
- 25 August, 2020
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How birth weight affects test scores during mid-childhood years
Besides lack of schooling resources, a possible reason why children grapple with low learning outcomes may be poor health at birth. Analysing data from Andhra Pradesh, this article finds that a 10% i...
- Santosh Kumar Utkarsh Singh
- 18 August, 2020
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Can greater access to education be inequitable?
Right to Education Act, 2009, was designed to provide the right to free, quality school education to all 6-14 year olds in India. This article examines the influence of RTE on the expansion of private...
- Chirantan Chatterjee Eric Hanushek Shreekanth Mahendiran
- 10 August, 2020
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Disparity in access to quality education and the digital divide
On account of the Covid-19 pandemic, most educational institutions in India have adopted online teaching as a solution to offset huge deficits in instruction hours. However, citizens who do not have d...
- Sabir Ahamed Md. Zakaria Siddiqui
- 09 July, 2020
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Can India improve its public schools? Research says yes
An important policy question is whether the quality of public schools can be improved enough to effectively increase student outcomes. This article examines the effects of a natural experiment to crea...
- Naveen Kumar
- 26 June, 2020
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The 2011 Indian Census data show a higher growth rate of Muslim population compared to the Hindu population. This article provides an in-depth picture of Hindu-Muslim fertility differentials at the di...
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In this article, Sridhar Rajagopalan, Managing Director of Educational Initiatives, suggests 10 initiatives that can help transform the quality of education in India.
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