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Multigenerational mobility among males in IndiaTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | Most studies of intergenerational mobility focus on adjacent generations, and there is limited knowledge about multigenerational mobility—status transmission across three generations...
multigenerational mobility Occupational mobility Educational mobilityBlog
Can access to finance spur entrepreneurship in Indian informal sector?Credit constraints, a consequence of the widespread failure of credit markets in developing countries, are widely regarded as a key constraint to entrepreneurship...
India Informality EntrepreneurshipJournal Article
Effects of peers and rank on cognition, preferences, and personalityWe exploit the variation in admission cutoffs across colleges at a leading Indian university to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on cognitive attainment, economic preferences, and Big Five personality traits...
Cognitive attainment Behaviour PersonalityBook Chapter
Inclusive structural transformation in India: Past episodes and future trajectoriesFrom the book: The developer’s dilemma
Developer's dilemma India InequalityBlog
COVID-19 in India: cases, deaths, and vaccinationsThe Omicron variant resulted in a third major wave of Covid-19 in India, with the number of cases exceeding those in the second wave, albeit causing less severe illness on average...
COVID-19 IndiaJournal Article
Digital Technologies and Product Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Empirical Evidence from Indian Manufacturing FirmsThis article provides empirical evidence on the impact of digitalisation on product upgrading in global value chains (GVCs)...
Technology Global value chains ManufacturingWorking Paper
Women’s inheritance rights and time use: Evidence from Hindu Succession Act in IndiaThis paper examines the impact of the Hindu Succession Act on married women’s time use in India. The Hindu Succession Act was amended between 1976 and 2005 by giving equal inheritance rights to women for inheriting property...
Time use Inheritance and succession WomenJournal Article
Finance, gender and entrepreneurship: India’s informal sector firmsPart of Journal Special Issue What sustains informality
Entrepreneurship Financial constraints GenderWorking Paper
The gender productivity gap: Evidence from the Indian informal sectorWe examine the patterns and correlates of the productivity gap between male-owned and female-owned firms for informal enterprises in India...
Gender Productivity gap IndiaBook Chapter
Income mobility in the developing world: Recent approaches and evidenceFrom the book: Social mobility in developing countries
Intragenerational mobility Intergenerational Mobility Welfare dynamicsWorking Paper
Technology and clientelist politics in IndiaThis paper argues that new computer, smartphone, and universal ID technologies are reducing the incentives for political clientelism in the delivery of social programmes in India, especially by allowing party leaders to bypass local brokers to credit...
Clientelism India TechnologyWorking Paper
Childbirth and women’s labour market transitions in India (revised)The impact of childbirth on women’s employment has been discussed extensively in the context of developed countries...
child penalty Childbirth event studyBlog
Kanika Mahajan – IEA featured economist interview
Kanika Mahajan, a researcher engaged in UNU-WIDER's project on 'The changing nature of work and inequality', is the August 2021 featured economist of the International Economic Association (IEA)...
Inequality Labour economics GenderWorking Paper
Norms that matter: Exploring the distribution of women’s work between income generation, expenditure-saving, and unpaid domestic responsibilities in IndiaBased on primary data from India, this paper analyses the reasons underlying women’s low labour force participation. In developing countries, women engaged in unpaid economic work in family enterprises are often not counted as workers...
Female labour force participation India Social normsWorking Paper
Childbirth and women's labour market transitions in IndiaThe impact of childbirth on the labour market participation of women has been discussed extensively in the context of developed countries, constraints on mothers’ labour market participation and earnings being characterized as the ‘mother...
child penalty Childbirth event studyWorking Paper
The gendered crisis: livelihoods and mental well-being in India during COVID-19This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among urban informal-sector workers in India...
COVID-19 Informal sector Employment