Using data from the India Human Development Survey, this paper analyses the relationship between child disability and maternal work participation for India. The authors' findings suggest a significant positive relationship between child disability and the work participation of the urban mothers...

Over the past two decades, conditional cash transfer programmes have gained importance to improve schooling outcomes and delay female child marriage. This paper evaluates the impact of one of such programme implemented in West Bengal (WB) since 2013 known as the Kanyashree Prakalpya (KP) on...

Gender has been among the most pervasive forms of inequality across all classes, social groups and communities especially in developing countries. Literature indicates evident gender bias in labor market opportunities including wage gap, which can be partially explained by performance in...

The effect of population or social homogeneity has been documented to have mixed evidence on public good provisioning and welfare outcomes. In this paper, we examine the implications of caste-group homogeneity in India in a pandemic setting taking the case of the COVID-19 pandemic. In...

This study explores whether the outbreak of COVID-19 affects clean fuel adoption in rural India. We make use of the fifth wave of the National Family and Health Survey conducted from 2019 to 2021 and focus on districts in which the survey was conducted both in the pre-pandemic and post-outbreak...

This paper assesses the impact of an information dissemination intervention on the local-level implementation of the rural public works program in India. One key feature of the intervention is to provide information to workers once their wages get credited into their accounts. Using...

Over time, the state of Kerala has systematically outperformed the rest of India in terms of literacy outcomes. In this paper, two explanations are considered: one, centred on historical inertia, attributes Kerala’s educational outcomes to investments made in pre-independence times....