
kanika mahajan
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https://sites.google.com/view/kanikamahajan 05-09-2011 14:34:19
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Finally in print in Economic Development and Cultural Change! sabyasachi das, kanika mahajan, and I analyze toilet allocation to 25M+ rural UP households & find #gender #quotas work by enabling women to better express demand to female leaders #EconTwitter 🔗bit.ly/3WTw63O



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…

📢Excited to share paper with kanika mahajan & Zahra Siddique, now published in Research in Labor Economics Research in Labor Economics! We show how labor economists can use #TextAnalysis on #BigData (e.g., job portals) to study skill demand 🔗docs.iza.org/dp16593.pdf #EconTwitter #LaborEconomics



📢Friends in Mumbai! Exciting collab between Centre for Economic Data & Analysis (CEDA) and #GodrejDEI on getting women back to work after a career break🎇🎆 Come over on March 7, 3-5 pm, for fun convos & delish snacks. Registration link in poster below. Akshi Indulekha Aravind Rosie Roti #womenatwork


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


This article by Sugat Chaturvedi, kanika mahajan & Zahra Siddique explores how job ad wording affects applicant behaviour and contributes to gender inequality in the labour market. Learn more about their findings below and read the full article here: bit.ly/IWD25-4 #IWD2025

Check out Centre for Economic Data & Analysis (CEDA)’s fabulous report on The Returnship Road in collaboration with #godrejdeilab. Happy #InternationalWomensDay2025! Indulekha Aravind Nithya Subramanian Rosie Roti Akshi kanika mahajan Anisha Sharma

Featuring research and perspectives by Aakash Dev (Ph.D.), Ratna Sahay, nishant, Archana Singh, Tanu Gupta, Md Tajuddin Khan, Digvijay, Sugat Chaturvedi, kanika mahajan, Zahra Siddique, Nishith Prakash, sahil & Vagisha!

Can minimum wages help reduce inequality in India? This Ideas for India blog by Saloni Khurana, kanika mahajan, and kunal sen finds that rising minimum wages accounted for 26% of the decline in wage inequality—without harming employment. Read the blog here: go.unu.edu/8UxtT






🚨Happy to share our #OpenAccess publication with kanika mahajan & Zahra Siddique in Labour Economics! We analyze gendered language in job ads and its link to #GenderWageGap using 6M+ applications to 160K jobs ads in India. 🔗doi.org/10.1016/j.labe… #WomenInWorkforce #EconTwitter


This article by Khanna, kanika mahajan & Sudarshan RSA examines the efficacy of a 2015 ban on crop residue burning across five states. It finds that the ban had a sizeable ⬇️ impact on fire counts - w/ a lag of a year and effects lasting for at most two years ideasforindia.in/topics/environ…