A long road from employment to empowerment - In a survey of 240 ever-married workers in Karnataka, we ask if they are responsible for different activities related to household production:

My paper on the costs of extreme competition for government jobs in India is now forthcoming at the Journal of Development Economics! Open access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jOUb15DRG7v…

⚡️Ep 2 Econ-on-Mics⚡️ Kanika Mahajan delves into the topic of #women’s labour force participation in India, interviewed by Anahita Karandikar Anahita Karandikar kanika mahajan Listen ➡️ bit.ly/3Ji1JN9 #EconTwitter Women in Econ/Policy Economics @ Ashoka Centre for Economic Data & Analysis (CEDA) #amplifyingvoices

Discover how law has shaped India’s economy from colonial times to today in Roy & Swamy’s groundbreaking volume. Dive into 250 years of legal and economic history to understand today’s challenges. Thank you HarperCollins for this copy! Get here - amzn.to/3ysZNzz

Sad to see the work of Sarabhai, Swaminathan and scientists being shut down instead by NITI Aayog consultants. PM Narendra Modi, ISRO, IIT Gandhinagar and Deepinder Goyal must not let this happen. Great UX, Open stack tech is possible and more useful/valuable. article-14.com/post/farm-weat…

The declaration of school holidays (this time for teej) at the drop of a hat is testing parent’s patience and perhaps a vote bank loss. CMO Haryana Haryana BJP sharing some reactions in our school group today for you to ponder:

A NEW PODCAST Michael Richter and me wrote a paper called "Convex Preferences": a new definition, published in Theoretical Economics 2019. I gave it to the new google toy, and now u can listen to 7 minutes podcast in our "pathbreaking paper". Don't miss: A NEW PODCAST

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Snapshots from the Workshop on Green Budgeting in Assam, held on December 11, 2024, at the Old CM Block, Janata Bhawan, Dispur. A collaborative effort by the Finance Department, Govt of Assam & @CivicDataLab. #GreenBudgeting #Sustainability #Assam #GovtInitiatives #AssamBudget

US immigration policy uncertainty drives job relocation to India Last month Ritam Chaurey Johns Hopkins SAIS kanika mahajan Ashoka University & Shekhar Tomar Indian School of Business (ISB) outlined how restrictive immigration rhetoric may lead to offshoring rather than promote domestic employment:voxdev.org/topic/migratio…

An article by Saloni Khurana, kanika mahajan & kunal sen examines the role of ⬆️ minimum wages in ⬇️ wage inequality in India over the past two decades. It finds that minimum wage increases account for 26% of the decline & had no adverse effects on employment: ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty…

The #GodrejDEI team is incredibly creative. For our Centre for Economic Data & Analysis (CEDA) event Women at Work, they just released #Oscars2025 themed posters. Check them out in 🧵 below & and if you are in Mumbai on the 7th, we would love to see you there! Rosie Roti Akshi kanika mahajan Akshi

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Looking to hire a RA for a project. Join the team for an exciting project on how to tackle demand side constraints for female employment in india Ashwini_Deshpande

Just got confirmation that the 9th annual cecfee research and policy workshop will be held in Srinagar, in collaboration with dept of economics Kashmir University . I encourage all econ students and researchers, based out of Srinagar to attend. Date: 13-14th Nov.

A moment of pride for #EconISIDelhi & me as a friend on the announcement that Debasis Mishra has been chosen as fellow of the The Econometric Society great advt that it is possible to have a gr8 career from India. Thnx to ISI & Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation for supporting researchers like him #EconTwitter