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Ambrish Dongre

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
ambrishd@iima.ac.in

Ambrish Dongre is an Assistant Professor at Ravi J. Mathai Centre for Innovation in Education at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad. His research interests include education and health. Prior to joining IIM-A, he was a fellow at Centre for Policy Research (CPR), New Delhi. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), and a Masters in economics from University of Mumbai.

Posts by Ambrish Dongre

‘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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आरटीई के 25% के अधिदेश के तहत विद्यालय के विकल्पों को समझना

शिक्षा का अधिकार अधिनियम की धारा 12 (1) (सी) के तहत गैर-अल्पसंख्यक दर्जे के निजी विद्यालयों द्वारा समाज के वंचित और कमजोर वर्गों के लिए कम से कम 25% सीट आरक्षित किया जाना अनिवार्य है। यह लेख अहमदाबाद ...

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Understanding school choices under RTE’s 25% mandate

Section 12(1)(c) of the Right To Education Act mandates non-minority status private schools to reserve at least 25% seats for the disadvantaged and weaker sections of the society. This article analyse...

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C-section deliveries and the role of the private health sector in India

India, like the rest of the world, is witnessing an upward trend in caesarean-section (C-section) deliveries – with the proportion of C-section deliveries rising even faster in private health facili...

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Barriers in accessing applications under RTE quota in Gujarat

In the school year 2017-18, Gujarat shifted from a paper-based system at the district level to an online system at the state level, for applications under the Right to Education Act. In this note, res...

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Reservation under RTE: Status of implementation and way forward

Section 12(1)(c) of the Right to Education Act, 2009, mandates that non-minority private unaided schools should reserve at least 25% of seats in entry-level grades for children from economically weak...

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Education reform and frontline administrators: A case study from Bihar - II

The frontline administration in India is infamous for corruption and patronage, indifference towards citizens, low effort and high absenteeism. This column reports findings from a year-long qualitati...

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Education reform and frontline administrators: A case study from Bihar - I

The frontline administration in India is infamous for corruption and patronage, indifference towards citizens, low effort and high absenteeism. This column reports findings from a year-long qualitati...

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Outlays to Outcomes: Understanding pathways to improving learning outcome

This project responds to a specific Government of Bihar request to assess the effectiveness of its "Mission Gunvatta" programme, which aimed at improving the learning outcomes of children attending el...

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How much does India spend on elementary education?

There has been a significant policy focus on expanding elementary education in India in recent years. Yet, estimates of public and private expenditure on elementary education are not available. This ...

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Do private tuitions improve learning outcomes?

About a fourth of the students enrolled in elementary schools in rural India attend private tuitions. This column analyses the impact of private tuition on learning outcomes, and finds that it has a ...

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