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Agrawal et al. explore the role of gender-based preferences for demand of healthcare. Using CPHS data they find that the positive income shock – generated by a change in the mandated rates of contri...
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Shubhangi Agrawal Somdeep Chatterjee Chirantan Chatterjee 
27 April, 2023
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Phone-based assessment data: Triangulating schools’ learning outcomes
Recent research has shown that schools often report overestimated learning outcomes, as they fear adverse consequences if they report poor performance. In this post, Gupta et al. describe a pilot stud...
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Rahul Ahluwalia Vaani Chopra Saloni Gupta Niharika Gupta Azeem Panjwani Kumar Satyam Prakhar Singh
- 11 January, 2023
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Access to health insurance in India: Direct and spillover effects
Many low-income households in India have been pushed into poverty by high healthcare costs. Uptake of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana, the government-run national health insurance programme for bel...
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Gabriella Conti Cynthia Kinnan Anup Malani Alessandra Voena
- 01 July, 2022
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The Enigma of Malnutrition in India
This project uses data from 2004 to 2014 for 26 countries to make comparisons between South Asia and Africa, examining how the regional gap in child malnutrition varies with demographic and other char...
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Seema Jayachandran Rohini Pande
- 01 July, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Women's Reservations in Bihar and Children's Health Outcomes
This project investigates the impact of political decentralization and gender quota in local governance on different measures of health outcomes and behaviors. The findings of the prioject are consist...
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Santosh Kumar Nishith Prakash
- 01 June, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Public versus Private College Education in Developing Countries: Economic ans Social Implications in India
Tertiary education has fuelled the economic growth in India in recent times. This has in turn generated excess demand for a highly educated and skilled workforce.
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Sheetal Sekhri
- 01 April, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Cognitive Effects of Supplementary School Feeding Programme
This project uses the exogenous policy shock of the extension of provision of school meals to upper primary grades in public schools in Delhi to study the effects of school meal intake on the cognitiv...
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Farzana Afridi Bidisha Barooah Rohini Somanathan
- 01 April, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Education Policies and Practices
The objective of this project was to study the status of education in Bihar both in absolute terms and in relation to other states in India and also to identify best practices in education policies an...
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Nishith Prakash
- 01 April, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Role of ICT in Improving the Quality of Elementary School Education in Bihar
The objective of this project was to bring out the role of ICT in improving the quality of school education, integrated within pedagogical approaches taking on-board the social constraints of schoolin...
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Chirashree Das Gupta Haridas KPN
- 01 August, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Improving Access to and Measuring the Impact of Public Health Insurance in India
This project aims to add to the broad literature on improving the quality of public services by looking at the effect of providing incentives to agents for spreading information regarding a government...
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Erlend Berg Maitreesh Ghatak D Rajasekhar Sanchari Roy
- 01 April, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Improving Access to and Measuring the Impact of Public Health Insurance in India
This project aims to add to the broad literature on improving the quality of public services by looking at the effect of providing incentives to agents for spreading information regarding a government...
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Erlend Berg Maitreesh Ghatak D Rajasekhar Sanchari Roy
- 01 April, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Information Provision and the Quality of Education in Rural India
This study analyses whether providing information on the absolute and relative quality of schooling to the stakeholders affects the behaviour of service providers in both the public and the private se...
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Farzana Afridi Bidisha Barooah Rohini Somanathan
- 01 April, 2011
- IGC Research on India
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