Explore the latest IHDS newsletter featuring papers on 1. National Rural Drinking Water Programme’s impact on education and 2. status signaling via consumption behaviour. Learn about transitioning from PAPI to CAPI in #FieldPerspectives. 👉bit.ly/3yaYp43

Guess, who are most at risk to be missed in birth history reporting? Find out our latest publication Demographic Research on omitted birth reporting by IHDS Corner respondents Sonalde Desai Sharan Sharma om prakash

#CII Annual Business Summit 2024 Taj Hotels New Delhi. ❤️ The thoughts of BVR Subramanyam of NITI Aayog. He emphasised the need to integrate women in the development process. "We look back and feel happy about that, but if we look left and right, there's much needed to be done"

We have 4 RA positions open, with a chance to: ✔️Work on human development themes—#health #education #gender #mobility & #employment— using & building IHDS Corner data! ✔️Work with Prof Sonalde Desai, @pallavi_econ, Debasis Barik & others 📎Apply here: bit.ly/4ezKnKc

Rethinking social safety nets in a changing society - Sonalde Desai Sonalde Desai (NCAER & UMD Sociology) and coauthors Read more: ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty…

Sonalde Desai NCAER This paper was coauthored by Debasis Barik, @pallavi_econ, Bijay Chouhan, Om Prakash Sharma, Dinesh Kumar Tiwari & Sharan Sharma. It was presented at #IPF2024 w/ Saurabh Garg & Shanta Devarajan IHDS Corner World Bank Poverty Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation

While overall poverty has been ⬇️ the share of transient poverty ⬆️ b/w IHDS Corner wave 2 & 3. As the economy grows & households transition in and out of poverty, it becomes difficult to identify the poor & give them access to social protection Read more: rb.gy/13p93y

1. Last interview for India Human Development Survey-3 took place yesterday. Our grateful thanks to over 47000 families for generously opening their homes and hearts to our interviewers once again. 🙏🏽🙏🏽 to over 8000 schools and health centres for taking the time to talk to us.

2. As before, we are committed to placing the data in public domain in a usable format & free of charge. Our next year will be spent validating data, harmonizing variables across rounds, creating data files and composite variables, and generating sampling weights.

Digital data collection unfurls some great opportunity to monitor field progress as well as interviewers reluctance in some cases. -ve screening helps in early detection of interviewing malpractices. Read the latest #IHDS newsletter to know how we tacked such fraud in IHDS 3.

NCAER’s IHDS panel survey has enabled social science researchers to track changes in the same households for over two decades. Sonalde Desai speaks with Amit Basole on the challenges and joys of data collection & lessons from the computerised IHDS-3. youtube.com/watch?v=Q1BALY…

🗓️Mark your calendars for the upcoming 'Data Talk' on 21 Aug 2024 at 6:30 PM IST, on "Measuring Learning in India". Engage with eminent speakers for a deep dive into the metrics, methodologies, and implications of educational assessment. Register here: ncaer.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Improving learning outcomes has become a national and global priority. But how will we know we have succeeded? What needs to be measured - foundational learning or critical thinking? Join us for an engaging discussion-register at ncaer.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

The NCAER IHDS Newsletter for September is here! It has two interesting papers on: 1. Predictors of Birth History Omissions in India and 2. Is the Growing Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases in India Preventable? Read here: bit.ly/4dulmOT

If births are omitted, estimates of fertility and mortality may be understated. Sharan Sharma, Non-Resident Fellow at NCAER and his co-authors, analyse fertility histories of the same women over two waves of NCAER-UMD IHDS survey and conservatively estimate the prevalence of birth

NCAER Prof Sonalde Desai's views on pro-natalist policies were quoted by Udit Misra in this The Indian Express article: indianexpress.com/article/explai…

Southern Indian chief ministers are talking about implementing pronatalist policies as they fear losing out to the North in political and financial power. Debasis Barik and I discuss limited options available to them in The Indian Express

1/2 IHDS-3 data show modest to substantial changes in almost all aspects of young women's lives -- agency over personal decisions, intra-household relationships, and societal engagement. These are not revolutionary changes; women continue to negotiate their lives within various

Released: Latest Issue of Margin – A Peer-Reviewed Journal The latest issue of Margin, jointly published by NCAER and Sage, is now available. Drawing on findings from first 2 waves of IHDS Corner, this special issue explores key themes including weather shocks and

📰 Out now! Explore the September edition of the NCAER IHDS Research Digest. Using NCAER’s India Human Development Survey data, this issue includes (a) study on the reliability of asset indices compared to income or total expenditure in assessing household’s long-term economic