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The anomaly of women’s work and education in India

There has been a decline in the female labour force participation rate and size of the female labour force in India in recent years. This article looks at this trend in conjunction with female educati...

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Does a fear of violence affect female labour supply in India?

Working-age women in developing-country labour markets might be particularly sensitive to media reports on sudden incidents of violence against women, which can deter them from going out to work. Usin...

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भारत में बच्चों की लंबाई: नए आंकड़े, परिचित चुनौतियां

भारत के बच्चे दुनिया के सबसे नाटे बच्चों में आते हैं। देश में बच्चों की लंबाई संबंधी जटिलता और विविधता की जांच के लिए इस आलेख में राष्ट्रीय पारिवारिक स्वास्थ्य सर्वेक्षण-4 (एनएफएचएस-4) के आंकड़ों का उ...

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Wheels of power: Long-term effects of the Bihar Cycle Programme

The Bihar government introduced a programme in 2006 to give cash to grade 9 girls to buy bicycles to go to school. Based on a survey undertaken in 2016, this article shows that beneficiaries were more...

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(Un)ease of doing business: How congested courts hinder firm productivity

The strength of contract enforcement determines how firms source inputs and organise production, and hence influences productivity. Using microdata on Indian manufacturing, this article quantifies the...

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सम्मान की संस्कृति में सहयोग करना सीखना

दुनिया के अनेक हिस्सों में हम साझा हितों को लेकर सहयोग करना सीखने के मामले में लगातार गड़बड़ी देखते हैं। सांस्कृतिक भिन्नताओं – अर्थात ऐसे विचार कि अपमान क्या होता है और उसका सही रिस्पांस क्या होता है –...

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The long-term consequences of medical missions in colonial India

Health outcomes vary substantially across India. Is this variation exclusively determined by present-day factors, or can it be traced back to historical events? This article studies the long-term cons...

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Gender, electoral competition, and sanitation in India

The negative impact of poor sanitation is more pronounced for women than men and therefore, women have a stronger desire to improve sanitation. Analysing district-level data from 15 major Indian state...

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ASER 2018: Behind the headlines

Thanks to more than a decade of Annual Status of Education Reports (ASER), the main headlines from the surveys are widely known – the learning levels of Indian school going children are worryingly low...

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Learning to cooperate in a culture of honour

In many parts of the world, we observe persistent dysfunction in learning to cooperate around common interests. Cultural differences – ideas of what constitutes an insult and what an appropriate respo...

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किसकी शिक्षा मायने रखती है? भारत में अंतर्जातीय विवाहों का एक विश्लेषण

वर्ष 2011 में भारत में अंतर्जातीय विवाहों की दर 5.82 प्रतिशत के निम्न स्तर पर थी और पिछले चार दशकों के दौरान इसमें कोई वृद्धि का रुझान नहीं दिखा है। इस आलेख में भारत में अंतर्जातीय विवाहों और शिक्षा क...

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Does India gain from high-skilled migration to the US?

India is the most important source of migrants globally, and the US is the main host country for its high-skilled migrants. Is the phenomenon of high-skilled emigration ‘brain drain’, or is it creatin...

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