11 October, 2024Digital gender divide amidst India’s service-led growth
While India’s growth in recent decades has been services-led, entering high-productivity business services requires an adequate supply of high-skilled workers. In this context, Isha Gupta discusses ...
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Isha Gupta 
07 October, 2024
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Affirmative action in credit markets: Can it enhance minorities’ welfare?
In 2009, as part of a Government of India programme to improve the welfare of religious minorities, commercial banks were directed to increase credit to these groups. This article finds that the polic...
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S. K. Ritadhi Muhammad Yasir Khan
- 27 August, 2024
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Analysing gender bias in school textbooks in India
If we want girls’ education to help build gender equality, a basic first step is ensuring we are not giving children sexist textbooks. This article analyses gender bias in school textbooks in India ...
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Lee Crawfurd Theodore Mitchell Radhika Nagesh Christelle Saintis-Miller Rory Todd
- 23 August, 2024
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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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International Women’s Day 2021
8 March is observed across the world as International Women’s Day. This year the theme is “choose to challenge”, focussing on the choice to challenge gender bias and inequality, celebrate women'...
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I4I Team
- 03 March, 2021
- Perspectives
Employment entry and exit by women in India
While India’s low female labour force participation has been studied extensively in the recent literature, an aspect that has received insufficient attention is the dynamic nature of employment – ...
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Soham Sahoo Sudipa Sarkar
- 19 January, 2021
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Covid-19 spread: Does social and economic diversity matter?
Arresting the spread of Covid-19 requires collective action by communities, which is likely to be more challenging in settings with high diversity. Using district-level data from India, this article e...
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Upasak Das Udayan Rathore Prasenjit Sarkhel
- 15 January, 2021
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Webinar: Growing concern around violence against women
On 25 November 2020, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the India Programme of the International Growth Centre – in collaboration with the Asian Development Researc...
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Michele Mary Bernadine Nalini Gulati
- 10 December, 2020
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Caste gaps in behaviour and personality traits: A study of university students
While numerous studies have examined gaps in health and educational outcomes across castes, there is little evidence on caste gaps in behavioural preferences and personality traits. Based on incentivi...
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Utteeyo Dasgupta Subha Mani Smriti Sharma Saurabh Singhal
- 04 December, 2020
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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
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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