Debayan Pakrashi
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 271701 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Debayan Pakrashi |
| NOMBRES | Debayan |
| APELLIDO | Pakrashi |
| FIRMA | PAKRASHI D |
| AFILIACIONES | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3422-7436 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
From extended family to enhanced burden
Impact of Early Childhood School Intervention on Enrolment and Learning Outcomes
We evaluate the impact of introducing a pre-primary schooling program in government schools in the Indian state of West Bengal in 2013 on children’s enrolment in pre-primary level and subsequent test scores. Using difference-in-differences (DID), triple difference, and synthetic DID methods, we find that the program significantly increased enrolment in the pre-primary sections of the government schools. However, analysing the test scores, we find…
Diffusion in social networks
Do educated politicians facilitate better public health? Evidence from India
Political representatives and their directives are discredited when there is an instance of rising mortality. However, there is limited empirical evidence linking public health outcomes to the quality of politicians. We investigate whether electing political leaders with higher levels of formal education affects child survival. Using an instrumental variable strategy exploiting quasi-experimental outcomes of close elections, we find that college-…
Child marriage and reproductive health of Indian women
Using detailed data from the third round of the District Level Household Survey of India, this paper examines in detail the effect of child marriage of women on contraceptive usage and access to skilled care during pregnancy and delivery. This paper particularly focuses on sixteen different outcome variables categorized under four broad sub-groups; namely, family planning and contraceptive usage, birth history, utilization of antenatal care; and …
Raising Health Awareness in Rural Communities
Delivering validated information to rural areas is a major challenge in low-income countries. In this paper, we study information provision to rural communities in the context of a global outbreak of an infectious disease—COVID-19. Two weeks after the initial lockdown in March 2020, we conducted a randomized experiment in rural Bangladesh and India to disseminate health information over the phone. We find that relative to information provided via…
Caste, Awareness and Inequality in Access to Maternal and Child Health Programs
He Has Gone to a Better Place, but She Has Not
Using detailed individual and household-level data from the first two rounds of the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) conducted in 2004–05 and 2011–12, this paper estimates the health gap that exists between married and widowed women from Hindu households. We use the most commonly used anthropometric indicators of nutritional status in adults – body mass index and incidence of underweight – to estimate and decompose the gap in health outcomes…
Determinants and dynamics of food insecurity during Covid-19 in rural Bangladesh
Stigma and misconceptions in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic
Labour Market Participation of Women in Rural Bangladesh
Using a large panel dataset on the labour supply behaviours of women and men within households in rural Bangladesh, we find robust evidence that the effects of microfinance on the labour supply are not symmetrical for women and men across different occupations. We also find that giving households access to microfinance helps to smooth out the seasonality in the labour supply via on-farm self-employment-based activities. Within households, the mal…
Can referral improve targeting? Evidence from an agricultural training experiment
Make Time for Physical Activity or You May Spend More Time Sick
Determinants and dynamics of food insecurity during Covid-19 in rural Bangladesh
Stigma and misconceptions in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic
Can referral improve targeting? Evidence from an agricultural training experiment
Caste, Awareness and Inequality in Access to Maternal and Child Health Programs
Make Time for Physical Activity or You May Spend More Time Sick
Labour Market Participation of Women in Rural Bangladesh
Using a large panel dataset on the labour supply behaviours of women and men within households in rural Bangladesh, we find robust evidence that the effects of microfinance on the labour supply are not symmetrical for women and men across different occupations. We also find that giving households access to microfinance helps to smooth out the seasonality in the labour supply via on-farm self-employment-based activities. Within households, the mal…
Can referral improve targeting? Evidence from an agricultural training experiment
He Has Gone to a Better Place, but She Has Not
Using detailed individual and household-level data from the first two rounds of the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) conducted in 2004–05 and 2011–12, this paper estimates the health gap that exists between married and widowed women from Hindu households. We use the most commonly used anthropometric indicators of nutritional status in adults – body mass index and incidence of underweight – to estimate and decompose the gap in health outcomes…
Determinants and dynamics of food insecurity during Covid-19 in rural Bangladesh
Stigma and misconceptions in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic
Caste, Awareness and Inequality in Access to Maternal and Child Health Programs
Child marriage and reproductive health of Indian women
Using detailed data from the third round of the District Level Household Survey of India, this paper examines in detail the effect of child marriage of women on contraceptive usage and access to skilled care during pregnancy and delivery. This paper particularly focuses on sixteen different outcome variables categorized under four broad sub-groups; namely, family planning and contraceptive usage, birth history, utilization of antenatal care; and …
Raising Health Awareness in Rural Communities
Delivering validated information to rural areas is a major challenge in low-income countries. In this paper, we study information provision to rural communities in the context of a global outbreak of an infectious disease—COVID-19. Two weeks after the initial lockdown in March 2020, we conducted a randomized experiment in rural Bangladesh and India to disseminate health information over the phone. We find that relative to information provided via…
Diffusion in social networks
Do educated politicians facilitate better public health? Evidence from India
Political representatives and their directives are discredited when there is an instance of rising mortality. However, there is limited empirical evidence linking public health outcomes to the quality of politicians. We investigate whether electing political leaders with higher levels of formal education affects child survival. Using an instrumental variable strategy exploiting quasi-experimental outcomes of close elections, we find that college-…
From extended family to enhanced burden
Impact of Early Childhood School Intervention on Enrolment and Learning Outcomes
We evaluate the impact of introducing a pre-primary schooling program in government schools in the Indian state of West Bengal in 2013 on children’s enrolment in pre-primary level and subsequent test scores. Using difference-in-differences (DID), triple difference, and synthetic DID methods, we find that the program significantly increased enrolment in the pre-primary sections of the government schools. However, analysing the test scores, we find…
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