FARZANA AFRIDI

FARZANA AFRIDI

Research

Gender, Networks and Identity

Time for clean energy? Cleaner fuels and women's time in home production (with Sisir Debnath, Taryn Dinkelman and Komal Sareen)

IZA Discussion Paper 15120, forthcoming World Bank Economic Review ,

March 2022

The Gendered Effects of Droughts: Production Shocks and Labor Response in Agriculture (with Kanika Mahajan and Nikita Sangwan)

IZA Discussion Paper 14568, forthcoming Labour Economics ,

March 2022

Social Networks and the Labor Market (with Amrita Dhillon)

Klaus Zimmerman ed. Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics ,

September 2022

The Ties that Bind Us: Social Networks and Productivity in the Factory (with Amrita Dhillon and Swati Sharma)

CEPR Working Paper, 14687 ,

May 2021

Gender and Mechanization: Evidence from Indian Agriculture (with Monisankar Bishnu and Kanika Mahajan)

forthcoming, American Journal of Agricultural Economics ,

May 2022

Using Social Connections and Financial Incentives to Solve Coordination Failure: A Quasi-field Experiment in India's Manufacturing Sector (with Amrita Dhillon, Sherry Xin Li and Swati Sharma)

Journal of Development Economics, 144 ,

May 2020

Media Mention - VoxDev

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What Determines Women's Labor Supply? The Role of Home Productivity and Social Norms (with Monisankar Bishnu and Kanika Mahajan)

IZA Discussion Paper 12666, forthcoming Journal of Demographic Economics ,

July 2022

Why Are Fewer Married Women Joining the Workforce in Rural India? A Decomposition Analysis over Two Decades (with Taryn Dinkelman and Kanika Mahajan)

Journal of Population Economics, 31(3): 783-818 ,

July 2018

Media Mention - Ideas for India

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Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (with Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Soham Sahoo)

IZA Journal of Labor and Development ,

April 2016

Social Networks and Labour Productivity: A Survey of Recent Theory and Evidence (with Amrita Dhillon and Swati Sharma)

Indian Economic Review, Vol L(1) ,

April 2015

Human Capital

A Breath of Fresh Air: Raising Awareness for Clean Fuel Adoption (with Sisir Debnath and E. Somanathan)

Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 151 ,

June 2021

Media Mention - CASI- India in Transition

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The Gendered Crisis: Livelihoods and Mental Well-being during COVID-19 (with Amrita Dhillon and Sanchari Roy)

UNU-WIDER Working Paper 2021/65, forthcoming Feminist Economics ,

May 2022

Improving Learning Outcomes through Information Provision: Experimental Evidence from Indian Villages (with Bidisha Barooah and Rohini Somanathan)

Journal of Development Economics, 146 ,

September 2020

Media Mention - Ideas for India

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Designing Effective Transfers: Lessons from India's School Meal Program (with Bidisha Barooah and Rohini Somanathan)

Review of Development Economics, 24(1): 45-61 ,

February 2020

Hunger and Performance in the Classroom (with Bidisha Barooah and Rohini Somanathan)

IZA Discussion Paper 12627 ,

2019

Media Mention - ThePrint

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Educational Attainment and Learning in India, 2004-12 (with Bidisha Barooah)

Batabyal and Nijkamp ed. Regional Growth and Sustainable Development in Asia, Springer ,

January 2017

The Impact of School Meals on Student Participation in Rural India

Journal of Development Studies (Special Section on Impact Evaluation), 47(11): 1636-1656 ,

November 2011

Child Welfare Programs and Child Nutrition: Evidence from a Mandated School Meal Program

Journal of Development Economics,92(2):152-165 ,

July 2010

Media Mention - The Economist

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Who Benefits from Public Sector Health Spending? Results of a Benefit Incidence Analysis for India, (with Ajay Mahal, Janmejay Singh, Vikram Lamba, V. Selvaraju and Anil Gumber)

The World Bank and The National Council of Applied Economic Research ,

2002

Governance and Corruption

Efficacy of Centralised and Decentralised Monitoring of Corruption in Developing Countries (with Amrita Dhillon, Arka Roy Chaudhuri and Dashleen Kaur)

Jean-Paul Fuguet and Sarmistha Pal (eds.) Decentralised Governance: Crafting Effective Democracies Around the World, LSE Press ,

2022

Measuring Performance: Ranking State Success Over Two Decades in India (with Amrita Dhillon, Arka Roy Chaudhuri and Saattvic)

IZA Discussion Paper 14522, forthcoming Journal of Asian Economics ,

June 2021

Employment Guaranteed? Social Protection During a Pandemic (with Kanika Mahajan and Nikita Sangwan)

Oxford Open Economics, 1: 1-15 ,

February 2022

Media Mention - World Bank Blogs: Development Impact; IPA Policy Brief

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Electoral Competition, Accountability and Corruption: Theory and Evidence from India (with Sourav Bhattacharya, Amrita Dhillon and Eilon Solan)

CAGE Working Paper 569/2021 ,

May 2021

Women Political Leaders, Corruption and Learning: Evidence from a Large Public Program in India (with Vegard Iversen and M.R. Sharan)

Economic Development and Cultural Change, 66(1) ,

October 2017

Governance and Public Service Delivery in India

IGC Synthesis Research & IZA Discussion Paper 10856 ,

July 2017

Social Audits and MGNREGA delivery: Lessons from Andhra Pradesh, (with Vegard Iversen)

India Policy Forum ,

March 2014

Media Mention - Live Mint and The Wall Street Journal

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Can Community Monitoring Improve the Accountability of Public Officials?

Economic and Political Weekly,Vol. 43 (42) ,

October 2008

Mid Day Meals in Two States: Comparing the Financial and Institutional Organization of the Program

Economic and Political Weekly,Vol. XL (15) ,

April 2005

Projects

Women & Work

These are projects at the Indian Statistical Institute being led by Prof. Farzana Afridi, and supported by IWWAGE. The overarching objective is to rigorously analyse the constraints that women face in engaging in remunerative economic activities, and suggest new policy measures, while also evaluating existing programmes that aim at unleashing women’s economic potential fully in India. IWWAGE aims to build on existing research and generate new evidence to inform and facilitate the agenda of women’s economic empowerment.