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Does signaling childcare support on job applications reduce the motherhood penalty?
(Springer, 2021)
There is substantial evidence that due to perceived childcare obligations, mothers are disadvantaged in labor markets. To what extent can childcare support ameliorate such a disadvantage? To answer this question, we ran a ...
Exploring Linkages between Industrial Innovation and Public Policy: Challenges and Opportunities
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018)
Enhancing performance of participatory water institutions in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic plains: What can we learn from new institutional economics and governance theories?
(MDPI AG, 2020)
The paper examines the performance of participatory water institutions in India's Eastern Indo-Gangetic plains region using new institutional economics and management governance fundamentals. Water institutions are of great ...
Consumer behaviour and climate action: insights from a Randomised Control Trial experiment in India's residential cooling sector
(Elsevier Ltd, 2021)
Air-conditioning is expected to be the largest consumer of residential energy in India in the future. Good consumer practices related to servicing air-conditioners (ACs) are critical for maintaining high operational ...
Maternal health in Gujarat, India: A case study
(International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 2009)
Gujarat state of India has come a long way in improving the health indicators since independence, but progress in reducing maternal mortality has been slow and largely unmeasured or documented. This case study identified ...
Social Entrepreneurship in India: an exploratory study
(UNIV NOVE JULHO, 2015)
Social Entrepreneurship is an all-encompassing nomenclature, used for depicting the process of, bringing about social change on a major and impactful scale compared to a traditional Non-Governmental Organization (NGO). It ...
Credit off-take from formal financial institutions in rural India: quantile regression results
(SpringerOpen, 2014)
Extending financial services to unbanked population in India has remained a central part of the policy thrust of the Indian government for decades. To that effect, a widespread formal credit delivery mechanism has been ...
Institutional structure, participation, and devolution in water institutions of Eastern India
(MDPI AG, 2020)
The paper examines the nature and development of the participatory water institutions in the eastern Indo-Gangetic plains of India, focusing on the aspects of structure, participation, and devolution. Though the physical ...
Ground truthing the cost of achieving the EAT lancet recommended diets: Evidence from rural India
(Elsevier B.V., 2021)
In this paper, we quantify the divergence in the cost of current diets as compared to EAT Lancet recommendations at the subnational-level in India. We use primary data on food prices and household food purchases, and ...
Macroeconomic assessment of India's development and mitigation pathways
(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2020)
Although a rapidly growing economy, India faces many challenges, including in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Moreover, post-2020 climate actions outlined in India's Nationally Determined ...