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Tag: India

Is universal inclusion the way forward for poverty alleviation?

Sanjukta Das is an Associate Fellow at the National Council of Applied Economic Research Supporting food security among undernourished populations … More

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Food Security, India, Poverty, Resilience

Combating Open Defecation through Community Led Sanitation approach in Rural India

Payal Seth is a PhD Student and a Tata Cornell Scholar in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics … More

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Food and Agriculture, Health, India, Methods, Nutrition, Social

Let Her Live? Women’s Electoral Success and Girl Survival in India

Nabaneeta Biswas is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Georgia Terry College of Business and is currently … More

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Gender, India, Job Market Paper, Public Sector & Governance

From Knowledge to Action in an Information Experiment: What’s the Weakest Link?

Tanvi Rao is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and a TCI Scholar; she is currently on the job market. Providing information … More

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Education, India, Job Market Paper, Methods

Productivity repercussions of contract work in India

Vidhya Soundararajan is a PhD candidate in Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. Firms are hiring … More

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India, Job Market Paper, Labor, Social

Gender differences in sharing between spouses

Carolina Castilla is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Colgate University. “Soon we saw that money going to women brought … More

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Behavioral Economics, Food and Agriculture, Gender, India

From the top to the bottom of India’s MGNREGA in one week

Megan Sheahan is a Research Support Specialist at Cornell’s Dyson School. In early June, I traveled to India to present … More

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Fieldwork, Food and Agriculture, India, Labor, Public Sector & Governance

My four top learnings from surveying high school students in eastern India

Tanvi Rao is a PhD candidate in Cornell’s Dyson School. She is also a research scholar with the Tata-Cornell Agriculture … More

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Education, Fieldwork, India

Job announcements: Research positions with the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (TCi)

Jessica Ames is the Program Manager at the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative. Follow on Twitter @TataCornell. I am pleased to announce … More

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Food and Agriculture, India, Nutrition

Lessons from implementing a field survey in India

Soumya Gupta is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and a research scholar with the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition … More

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Fieldwork, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Gender, Health, Human Capital, India, Nutrition

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