Socio-Economic and Politics Projects
Political Decentralization, Women’s Reservation and Child Health Outcomes: A Case Study of Rural Bihar
Santosh Kumar (Faculty / Researcher from Department of Global Health, University of Washington ) , and Nishith Prakash ( Faculty from Department of Economics, University of Connecticut & Human Rights Institute )
Project summary: This working paper studies how political decentralization and gender quotas in local governance affect maternal and child health in rural Bihar. Using multiple rounds of the District Level Household Survey (DLHS-1 and DLHS-3) for Bihar and the neighbouring…
Location: Rural districts of Bihar and Jharkhand, India (district-level coverage using DLHS data)
Read MoreConnectivity and Rural Development: Examining India’s Rural Road Construction Scheme
Santosh Kumar Gautam (Assistant Professor / Researcher from Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame ) , Monica Shandal (Researcher from UC Santa Cruz ) , and Ariel Zucker (Assistant Professor / Researcher from UC Santa Cruz )
Project summary: This project evaluates the short-run impacts of India’s Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), the world’s largest rural road construction programme, on economic, social, and institutional outcomes in rural Uttar Pradesh. Using a novel village-level survey of 267…
Location: 14 districts around Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (Bahraich, Barabanki, Faizabad, Farrukhabad, Gonda, Sultanpur, Hardoi, Kanpur Dehat, Kanpur Nagar, Lakhimpur Kheri, Rae Bareli, Shahjahanpur, Sitapur, Unnao)
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