This report presents findings from a study that seeks to address the gap in literature on the combined impacts of the multi-year drought and continuing groundwater depletion afflicting Karnataka on various household outcomes; and the adaptation strategies adopted by farmers … Read More
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Adaptation to Persistent Drought & Groundwater Depletion: Evidence from Karnataka
Ram Fishman, Veeramalla Prakash, K. Raju
Does Women’s Banking Matter for Women? Evidence from Urban India
Erica Field, Jose Martinez, Rohini Pande
In many developing countries, women are prevented to take full advantage of the benefits of living in an urban area. In India, while one of every two men participates in the labor market, it is the case just for one … Read More
Natural Calamities and Social Safety Programs
Arpita Khanna, Diksha Singh
This factsheet presents evidence from a recent IFMR LEAD, BIGD, IGC feasibility study on utilizing a mobile money platform to deliver cash transfers to vulnerable populations, in Northwest Bangladesh.
Open Government Data and Evidence-based Socio-economic Policy Research In India: An Overview
Larquemin, A, Buteau, S, Mukhopadhyay, JP
Public entities are one of the main producers of socio-economic data around the world. The Open Government Data (OGD) movement encourages these entities to make their data publicly available in order to improve transparency and accountability, which are the two … Read More
Understanding the Advice of Commissions-motivated Agents: Evidence from the Indian Life Insurance Market
Santosh Anagol, Shawn Cole, Shayak Sarkar
In this paper, authors share findings from a series of field experiments to evaluate the quality of advice provided by life insurance agents in India. Agents overwhelmingly recommend unsuitable, strictly dominated products, which provide high commissions to the agent. Agents … Read More
Jan Dhan Yojana: Just Another Empty Vessel Making Noise?
Mridulya Narasimhan
On 28th August 2014, the Indian government launched Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY), yet another flagship project with an aim to ensure affordable financial services and complete financial inclusion. Under the programme each account holder is covered by life … Read More
Role of Temporal Diversity in Inferring Social Ties Based on Spatio-temporal Data
Deshana Desai, Harsh Nisar, Rishab Bhardawaj
The last two decades have seen a tremendous surge in research on social networks and their implications. In this paper, the authors introduce DAIICT Spatio-Temporal Network (DSSN), a spatiotemporal dataset of 0.7 million data points of continuous location data logged … Read More
Providing New Homes for Climate Change Exiles. Climate Policy (Vol. 6:2)
Sujatha Byravan, Sudhir Chella Rajan
Given a certain pre-existing commitment to sea-level rise due to the long thermal lags of the ocean system, several million people living in coastal areas and small islands will inevitably be displaced by the middle of the century. These climate … Read More
Training programme for BIGD, Bangladesh
IFMR LEAD organized a rapid immersion programme on ‘Social Research Methods’ as part of their ongoing collaboration with the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development, Bangladesh. … Read More
Child Care: Whose Responsibility is it?
Anoushaka Chandrashekar
How many of us had our fathers waking us up to get us ready for school, cooking meals for us, attending parent teacher meetings, and being home when we returned from school? – I didn’t. And the majority of the … Read More
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