16 August, 2024Did Covid-19 pandemic increase incidence of low-birth-weight among newborns?
Globally, one in four babies are born with low birth weight, with long-term impacts on health and economic outcomes. This article uses Indian data from 2019-2021 to analyse the impact of the Covid-19 ...
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Tim Halliday Santosh Kumar 
09 August, 2024
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India’s massive employment problem and some ways out
In the recent announcement of India’s Union Budget 2024-25, significant emphasis was placed on the need for job creation. In this post, Pranab Bardhan presents a four-pronged strategy for the sustai...
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Pranab Bardhan
- 05 August, 2024
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Managing India’s demographic transition
India’s population is expected to peak at about 1.7 billion in 2064, and while the current median age is only 28, the share of Indians aged 65 and above will go from 7% to 20% in the next 40 years o...
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Farzana Afridi Sonalde Desai
- 03 July, 2024
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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...
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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...
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Pradyumna Bhattacharjee Avinav Kumar Subha Mani Kumar Vivek
- 01 September, 2020
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Naveen Kumar
- 26 June, 2020
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Science in high school? College and job outcomes
Career paths associated with the study of science vis-à-vis other disciplines in high school, are considered more prestigious and renumerative in India. This article examines the association between ...
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Tarun Jain Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay Nishith Prakash Raghav Rakesh
- 24 June, 2020
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Rethinking ‘mobile camps’ for cancer screening
Despite public-private initiatives to increase preventive screening for cancer through mobile camps, mortality rates on account of the disease continue to be high. In this post, Ghosh and Sekar discus...
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Samayita Ghosh Preethiya Sekar
- 28 May, 2020
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How India can lead the world to build a functioning public health system
The world has not yet invested in a cadre of trustworthy, community-embedded public health workers who are empowered to undertake their tasks as professionals, despite the lessons from Ebola virus dis...
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Stuti Khemani
- 20 May, 2020
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Harnessing technology to visualise Covid-19 risk across India
Policy discourse in India has steered towards opening the economy in a phased manner to combat the mounting economic distress caused by the lockdown. In this post, Puppala, Gupta, and Sekhri describe ...
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Rajiv Gupta Harish Puppula Sheetal Sekhri
- 24 April, 2020
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Gender composition of children and sanitation behaviour
Open defecation has been linked to various public health issues and has gained significant policy attention. Nonetheless, research has shown that due to son preference, households in India underinvest...
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Deepak Saraswat
- 22 April, 2020
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