Shabana Mitra
Biographic Data
| ID | 3605312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shabana Mitra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shabana |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitra |
| SIGNATURE | MITRA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Management Bangalore |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1391-332X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Women’s Work in Indian Manufacturing: Between Persistence and Precarity
Despite increasing visibility in employment statistics, women’s work in India continues to reflect entrenched inequalities in sectoral distribution, quality of employment, and regional access. This article draws on data from the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), Annual Survey of Industries (ASI), and the Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises (ASUSE) to explore how employment trends among Indian women are evolving. The findings sug…
Cash for Votes: Evidence from India
We examine consumption patterns around the time of elections to investigate vote-buying. Specifically, we combine data from state assembly elections in India with household-level consumer expenditure and employment surveys (conducted by the National Sample Survey Office) over the period 2004–12. Exploiting a difference-in-differences methodology, we estimate the positive effect elections have on reported consumption expenditures. We observe large…
Patriarchy and Child Well-Being: Evidence from India
The nutrition and care received in childhood can have a profound impact on the adult life of an individual. Governments and the United Nations have emphasized proper care and nutrition for children, and the Sustainable Development Goals have targeted the elimination of stunting and wasting of children under the age of 5 by 2030. However, South Asia is lagging behind in this metric; the World Bank has noted that about 32% of Indian children under …
Wheels of Power: Can Free Bicycles for Schoolgirls Free Their Mothers
We study whether a social program to facilitate girls’ schooling in India increases the autonomy of mothers and other female family members. The program gives every girl in grade 9 a cash amount to purchase a bicycle. This targeted in-kind provision has the effect of lowering the price of educating girls. It also signals the worth of young women. We find a strong empowerment effect on older female family members. The effect is strongest in areas …
Military dictatorship and the provision of public goods
Non-democracies, particularly dictatorships, provide local public goods differently when compared to democracies. We use the Partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947 to examine how similar ethnic groups living in similar agro-climatic conditions obtain substantially different configurations of public goods when exposed to different governance regimes. Our methodology draws upon the shifts in the central regime in Pakistan, between popularly …
Measuring Partial Democracies: Rules and their Implementation
Realising the Demographic Dividend: Policies to Achieve Inclusive Growth in India By Santosh Mehrotra
"Realising the Demographic Dividend: Policies to Achieve Inclusive Growth in India By Santosh Mehrotra." The Journal of Development Studies, 53(8), pp. 1323–1324
Re-Assessing “trickle-down” Using a Multidimensional Criteria: The Case of India
Electoral Uncertainty, Income Inequality and The Middle Class
We investigate how electoral competition affects the income distribution in society. We utilise a standard probabilistic voting setup where parties compete at two stages. Our model delivers that greater electoral competition in a district results in equalisation of incomes therein. We check for these relationships using data from Indian national elections which are combined with consumption expenditure data rounds from the National Sample Survey …
Synergies Among Monetary, Multidimensional and Subjective Poverty: Evidence from Nepal
Multidimensional Human Opportunity Index
Towards a Multidimensional Measure of Governance
Towards a Multidimensional Measure of Governance
Synergies Among Monetary, Multidimensional and Subjective Poverty: Evidence from Nepal
Electoral Uncertainty, Income Inequality and The Middle Class
We investigate how electoral competition affects the income distribution in society. We utilise a standard probabilistic voting setup where parties compete at two stages. Our model delivers that greater electoral competition in a district results in equalisation of incomes therein. We check for these relationships using data from Indian national elections which are combined with consumption expenditure data rounds from the National Sample Survey …
Multidimensional Human Opportunity Index
Re-Assessing “trickle-down” Using a Multidimensional Criteria: The Case of India
Towards a Multidimensional Measure of Governance
Multidimensional Human Opportunity Index
Synergies Among Monetary, Multidimensional and Subjective Poverty: Evidence from Nepal
Realising the Demographic Dividend: Policies to Achieve Inclusive Growth in India By Santosh Mehrotra
"Realising the Demographic Dividend: Policies to Achieve Inclusive Growth in India By Santosh Mehrotra." The Journal of Development Studies, 53(8), pp. 1323–1324
Re-Assessing “trickle-down” Using a Multidimensional Criteria: The Case of India
Electoral Uncertainty, Income Inequality and The Middle Class
We investigate how electoral competition affects the income distribution in society. We utilise a standard probabilistic voting setup where parties compete at two stages. Our model delivers that greater electoral competition in a district results in equalisation of incomes therein. We check for these relationships using data from Indian national elections which are combined with consumption expenditure data rounds from the National Sample Survey …
Military dictatorship and the provision of public goods
Non-democracies, particularly dictatorships, provide local public goods differently when compared to democracies. We use the Partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947 to examine how similar ethnic groups living in similar agro-climatic conditions obtain substantially different configurations of public goods when exposed to different governance regimes. Our methodology draws upon the shifts in the central regime in Pakistan, between popularly …
Measuring Partial Democracies: Rules and their Implementation
Patriarchy and Child Well-Being: Evidence from India
The nutrition and care received in childhood can have a profound impact on the adult life of an individual. Governments and the United Nations have emphasized proper care and nutrition for children, and the Sustainable Development Goals have targeted the elimination of stunting and wasting of children under the age of 5 by 2030. However, South Asia is lagging behind in this metric; the World Bank has noted that about 32% of Indian children under …
Wheels of Power: Can Free Bicycles for Schoolgirls Free Their Mothers
We study whether a social program to facilitate girls’ schooling in India increases the autonomy of mothers and other female family members. The program gives every girl in grade 9 a cash amount to purchase a bicycle. This targeted in-kind provision has the effect of lowering the price of educating girls. It also signals the worth of young women. We find a strong empowerment effect on older female family members. The effect is strongest in areas …
Cash for Votes: Evidence from India
We examine consumption patterns around the time of elections to investigate vote-buying. Specifically, we combine data from state assembly elections in India with household-level consumer expenditure and employment surveys (conducted by the National Sample Survey Office) over the period 2004–12. Exploiting a difference-in-differences methodology, we estimate the positive effect elections have on reported consumption expenditures. We observe large…
Women’s Work in Indian Manufacturing: Between Persistence and Precarity
Despite increasing visibility in employment statistics, women’s work in India continues to reflect entrenched inequalities in sectoral distribution, quality of employment, and regional access. This article draws on data from the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), Annual Survey of Industries (ASI), and the Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises (ASUSE) to explore how employment trends among Indian women are evolving. The findings sug…
Economics (8 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Human geography (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (4 works) · Public health (4 works)