08 March, 2025Can job ad language help explain the gender gap in the Indian labour market?
Women applying for jobs tend to earn a lot less than men of the same age and education qualifications. Understanding the factors contributing to this disparity is crucial for addressing gender inequal...
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Sugat Chaturvedi Kanika Mahajan Zahra Siddique 
06 March, 2025
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Fighting gender inequality through mobility: Assessing Delhi’s ‘Pink Ticket’ scheme
To address gender inequities in mobility, Delhi launched a fare-free bus travel scheme for women in 2019. Based on a survey of female passengers in the city, Nishant and Archana highlight positive eff...
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Nishant . Archana Singh
- 04 March, 2025
- Notes from the Field
Reporting of gender-based violence: Why public activism and dialogue matter
The recent case of an on-duty female doctor being brutally raped and murdered in a Kolkata hospital, has sparked nation-wide protests and yet again raised serious questions and concerns around women...
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Abhilasha Sahay
- 11 October, 2024
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Are Indian girls more educated than their mothers?
While intergenerational educational mobility of father-son pairs in India has been documented to some extent, there is negligible analysis on how daughters compare to their mothers in terms of educati...
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Ashish Singh
- 05 September, 2018
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Do property rights exacerbate son preference?
While land reform has been shown to have benefits like increased agricultural productivity and access to credit, not much attention has been devoted to investigating its impact on gender inequality wi...
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Sonia Bhalotra Abhishek Chakravarty Dilip Mookherjee Francesco J. Pino
- 24 August, 2018
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When electoral quotas reduce caste-based discrimination
While affirmative action policies are widely used to tackle the underrepresentation of certain groups, their efficiency is fiercely debated. This article uses novel data from India to explore how quot...
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Victoire Girard
- 08 August, 2018
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How women’s age at marriage impacts domestic violence
Domestic violence affects one in three women in their lifetime worldwide, and has serious adverse health and economic consequences. Analysing data from the latest National Family Health Survey of Indi...
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Gaurav Dhamija Punarjit Roychowdhury
- 02 July, 2018
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Social identity and perceived income adequacy
Perceptions about income adequacy, in addition to actual income adequacy, are a critical part of individual well-being. However, factors that determine these perceptions have not been well-investigate...
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Ashwini Deshpande Deepti Goel
- 13 June, 2018
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Unity in cricket: Integrated leagues and caste divisions
A growing body of evidence supports the idea that intergroup contact can reduce discrimination. However, different types of contact – collaborative or adversarial – may have different effects. Bas...
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Matt Lowe
- 23 May, 2018
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What happens when investments targeting women’s microbusinesses go to men?
Several studies find that male-operated – but not female-operated – microenterprises benefit from access to grants or loans. Applying the lens of household-level rather than individual-level inves...
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Arielle Bernhardt Erica Field Rohini Pande Natalia Rigol
- 02 May, 2018
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Religion and abortion: The role of politician identity
Debates surrounding abortion invoke both religion and politics. This column examines whether the religious identity of legislators influences abortion rates in the districts in which they are elected,...
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Sonia Bhalotra Irma Clots-Figueras Lakshmi Iyer
- 09 April, 2018
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Impact evaluation of a school-based gender sensitization campaign
This project conducts a randomised evaluation in four districts in Haryana, India, of a secondary-school-based attitude-change programme aimed at reducing son preference in reproductive decisions and ...
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Seema Jayachandran
- 31 March, 2018
- IGC Research on India
Religion and Health in Early Childhood in India
This project aims to investigate the puzzle of child undernourishment in India by comparing differences in child health outcomes by religious affiliation.
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Nidhiya Menon
- 31 March, 2018
- IGC Research on India
Empowering India's daughters
This article explores how women’s economic empowerment can be a crucial step in addressing India’s long-standing son preference, as highlighted by the latest Economic Survey. It discusses key tre...
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Nalini Gulati
- 08 March, 2018
- Perspectives
Union Budget 2018: What's in it for women?
In this article, Nalini Gulati analyses the Union Budget 2018-19 through a gender lens. She emphasises the need to firmly institutionalise Gender Responsive Budgeting within the government at the nat...
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Nalini Gulati
- 02 February, 2018
- Perspectives
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Hindu-Muslim fertility differentials in India: An update
Building on past research, Saswata Ghosh and Pallabi Das estimate the state- and district-level fertility differentials between Hindus and Muslims using data from the latest round of the NFHS. They sh...
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A division of labourers: Caste identity and efficiency in India
Castes in India are closely associated with certain occupations and determine the jobs done by millions. This study uses a new dataset to show that a large proportion of workers still work in their ca...
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Sex ratios and religion in India and South Asia
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