Author: Megan Sheahan, Yanyan Liu, Sudha Narayanan and Christopher B. Barrett Title: Disaggregated labor supply implications of guaranteed employment in India Abstract: How do household labor supply decisions change with the entry of a massive employment guarantee program? This paper explores the household labor allocation effects – disaggregated by gender, […]

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Author: Sudha Narayanan, Christian Oldiges and Shree Saha Title: Employment Guarantee during Times of COVID-19: Pro-poor and Pro-return-migrant? Abstract: Worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted economies rendering millions without employment. A number of countries have turned to labour market interventions to protect workers. India leverages on a workfare programme, the […]

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Author: Shree Saha, Sudha Narayanan Title: A simplified measure of nutritional empowerment Using machine learning to abbreviate the Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition Index (WENI) Abstract: Measuring empowerment is both complicated and time consuming. A number of recent ef- forts have focused on how to better measure this complex multidimensional concept […]

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Author: Ritabrata Bose and Ashima Goyal Title: Disaggregated Indian Industrial Cycles: A spectral analysis Abstract: We study the structure and dating of disaggregated Indian industrial cycles and spectral causality from different policy parameters to these cycles. The scattered pattern of peaks and troughs after 2013, suggests some industries continued to do well during […]

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Author: Tanu Gupta and A. Ganesh Kumar Title: Structural Equation Approach to Modelling Social Norms in Female Education: A Case Study of India Abstract: The literature on the relationship between social norms and female educational outcomes has ignored some important aspects. First, norms are unobservable; what we observe are practices that are manifestation […]

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