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Rahul Lahoti

UNU-WIDER
rahul.lahoti@gmail.com

Rahul Lahoti is a development economist at UNU-WIDER with research interests at the cross section of gender, poverty measurement, inequality, social stratification and labour markets. He has worked previously as a Post-doctoral research fellow at ETH, Zurich and as an Assistant Professor at Azim Premji University. He obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Goettingen, Germany.

Posts by Rahul Lahoti

Marriage and motherhood: Rethinking women’s employment in rural contexts

While “child penalties” for women in the labour market are well-documented in high- and middle-income countries, how the events of marriage and childbirth play out for women in largely informal ec...

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Improving survey quality using paradata: Lessons from the India Working Survey

To improve the credibility of survey data, several monitoring tools are used by researchers – such as ‘paradata’, which have gained prominence with the growth of computer-aided interviewing. In ...

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Covid-19: Impact on income inequality in India

Even as global inequality was falling, income inequality in India increased during 1990-2019. With the occurrence of Covid-19, the trend of increasing income inequality in the country is expected to n...

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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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ग्रामीण भारत में स्कूल का चयन: धारणा बनाम वास्तविकता

कम शुल्क वाले निजी स्कूलों की संख्या मे वृद्धि होने के साथ भारत में स्कूलों के विकल्पों में काफी वृद्धि हुई है और इसे स्कूली शिक्षा के लिए बाजार-आधारित दृष्टिकोण के अंतर्गत महत्वपूर्ण माना जाता है। ग्...

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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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Pandemic as a lens: Identifying and addressing livelihood vulnerabilities

Based on the findings from a phone survey of around 5,000 Indian workers, the authors explore the impact of the Covid-19 economic lockdown on two forms of livelihood vulnerabilities: employment insecu...

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How serious is the neglect of intra-household inequality in poverty measures in India?

Poverty measurement at the household level assumes that the poverty status of all household members, irrespective of age and gender, is the same as that of the household. This column presents a frame...

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