Shree Saha
Biographic Data
| ID | 6455099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shree Saha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shree |
| FAMILY NAME | Saha |
| SIGNATURE | SAHA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Food Subsidies in India
Does workfare work? India's employment guarantee during Covid‐19
As many other countries, India leverages on a pre‐existing workfare programme as a COVID‐19 response. We combine monthly administrative data with migration and poverty statistics and provide four insights on the recent expansion of the programme. First, poorer districts include more households, that is, increasing extensive margin. Second, in districts with a high proportion of return migrants, there is no increase, and third, unmet demand for wo…
A simplified measure of nutritional empowerment
Measuring empowerment is both complicated and time consuming. A number of recent efforts have focused on how to better measure this complex multidimensional concept such that it is easy to implement. In this paper, we use machine learning techniques, specifically LASSO, using survey data from five Indian states to abbreviate a recently developed measure of nutritional empowerment, the Women's Empowerment in Nutrition Index (WENI) that has 33 dist…
One Step Behind
This paper reviews the Indian state's response to the disruption in agri-food supply chains triggered by the lockdown as revealed in notifications pertaining to the agricultural sector This paper contends that though many notifications and orders did not percolate to State and local-level administrative enforcement mechanisms, the greater problem was the absence of coordination between the Centre and States Our analysis suggests that State Govern…
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One Step Behind
This paper reviews the Indian state's response to the disruption in agri-food supply chains triggered by the lockdown as revealed in notifications pertaining to the agricultural sector This paper contends that though many notifications and orders did not percolate to State and local-level administrative enforcement mechanisms, the greater problem was the absence of coordination between the Centre and States Our analysis suggests that State Govern…
Does workfare work? India's employment guarantee during Covid‐19
As many other countries, India leverages on a pre‐existing workfare programme as a COVID‐19 response. We combine monthly administrative data with migration and poverty statistics and provide four insights on the recent expansion of the programme. First, poorer districts include more households, that is, increasing extensive margin. Second, in districts with a high proportion of return migrants, there is no increase, and third, unmet demand for wo…
A simplified measure of nutritional empowerment
Measuring empowerment is both complicated and time consuming. A number of recent efforts have focused on how to better measure this complex multidimensional concept such that it is easy to implement. In this paper, we use machine learning techniques, specifically LASSO, using survey data from five Indian states to abbreviate a recently developed measure of nutritional empowerment, the Women's Empowerment in Nutrition Index (WENI) that has 33 dist…
Food Subsidies in India
Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Agricultural Economics and Practices (2 works) · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (1 works) · Agriculture (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (1 works)