What’s going on behind the recent increases in women’s employment? @p_value005 and I unpack in this piece for NDTV Profit . Summary thread below 👇

A brief article by Rosa and me summarising some findings from State of Working India 2023 on changing composition of the female workforce over the last few decades. Thanks Rohan Venkat for the opportunity.

Super grateful for the amazing opportunity to present my research at the MYM-INET conference at IIT Bombay. Big shout out to Subrato Banerjee and Priyanka for such an encouraging and warm reception :D

Highly recommended! Great place to experience cutting edge research and not to mention, a fun and enabling work space along with some of the BEST economists you’ll meet in the field :)

NCAER study shows rural women’s work participation to be 28% for NSS style questions vs 44% with probing questions for the same women. Extremely important piece by Sonalde Desai and @pallavi_econ 👇

Excited to share the poster for the JGU-ISHET event convened by Sharmin Khodaiji (JGU) in association with ISHET. w/ Maria Bach Ruchira Ishan Anand Register here: ideajgu.wixsite.com/ideas/symposiu… SHoET Young Scholars Initiative Rethinking Economics Rethinking Economics India YSI History of Economic Thought Working Group

Please apply and spread the word. Postdoctoral positions at the Centre for Sustainable Employment Azim Premji University

Always a pleasure to be a part of this exciting non-academic and crazy academic brainstorming! Cheers!

New CSE- Azim Premji University working paper using PLFS and CMIE data highlighting the differential impact of the pandemic across richer and poorer households

Super elated to be a part of this lovely NCAER-NDIC cohort. Grateful for all the friendships and brilliant supervision by NCAER , Sonalde Desai Pallavi Choudhuri, Vijayamba R , AshwinTripathi3

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

Happy to share our paper based on our learnings from using paradata as a tool to monitor survey quality, written with Deepti Goel onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dp…

We have openings for RA positions at CSE, deadline is 28th February.

Professional Update - Very excited to take on the role of Director of the Jindal Institute of Haryana Studies (JIHS) JGU. We invite applications for the position of #ResearchAssociates for the Institute. Details below. Please reach out for more information.

PLFS has revamped its sampling & rotational panel design starting Jan 2025. Some big changes: 1. Monthly CWS estimates for rural & urban. 2. Rotational panel over consecutive months & not quarters. 3. Sample size up from ~1 lakh to 2.7 lakh HHs, so more reliable estimates. 1/2

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🎉 Very happy to share that our paper, with Surbhi Kesar , is now out in World Development ! We use panel data from India to track how workers move across different employment arrangements to identify dominant labour market trajectories. 🔗 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…