Farzana Afridi
Farzana Afridi is an Associate Professor in the Economics and Planning Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute in Delhi. Her areas of interest are education, health, gender, and political economy.
Content by Farzana Afridi
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Publication - Project Report
Why are fewer married women joining the work force in rural India? A decomposition analysis over two decades
8 Sep 2017 | Farzana Afridi, Taryn Dinkelman, Kanika Mahajan
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Blog post
Governance and public service delivery in India
The International Growth Centre recently produced a synthesis paper (Afridi 2017) bringing together insights from its research on governance and public service delivery in India, over the past seven years. At a workshop organised by the IGC in collaboration with Ideas for India and Indian Statistical Institute, Amarjeet Sinha (Ministry of Rural Development), Rajesh...
30 Aug 2017 | Farzana Afridi, Nalini Gulati
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Project
IGC India Central synthesis papers
Since its inception in 2009, the IGC has funded more than 200 economic research projects in India on a wide variety of policy relevant topics. The vast knowledge generated through these projects has been synthesised in three recent IGC working papers on health, governance and public service delivery, and financial inclusion which can be downloaded below. The papers were...
31 May 2017 | Farzana Afridi, Vikas Dimble, Nidhiya Menon, Nirvikar Singh
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Publication - Policy note
Governance and public service delivery in India
31 May 2017 | Farzana Afridi, Vikas Dimble
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Publication - Synthesis paper
Governance and public service delivery in India
31 May 2017 | Farzana Afridi
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Project
Women and work in rural India
In contrast with global trends, India has witnessed a decline in women’s employment rates over the past few decades. We investigated this decline in rural areas, where the majority of Indian women live. We found that increasing education levels among rural married women and the men in their households were the most important factors contributing to the decline...
9 Mar 2017 | Farzana Afridi, Kanika Mahajan, Taryn Dinkelman
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Blog post
Declining female labour force participation in rural India: The supply side
Analysis of National Sample Survey data shows that low rates of female labour force participation in India are concentrated among married women in rural areas. This blog suggests that this is partly because women with medium levels of education choose to spend more time on child care and domestic work. Globally, about half of all women work, and recent increases in rates...
8 Mar 2017 | Farzana Afridi, Taryn Dinkelman, Kanika Mahajan
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Publication - Policy Brief
Women Political Leaders, Corruption and Learning: Evidence from a Large Public Program in India (Policy Brief)
1 Sep 2013 | Farzana Afridi, Vegard Iversen, M.R. Sharan
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Publication - Working Paper
School meals and classroom effort: Evidence from India (Working Paper)
1 Feb 2013 | Farzana Afridi, Bidisha Barooah, Rohini Somanathan
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Publication - Working Paper
Women Political Leaders, Corruption and Learning: Evidence from a Large Public Program in India (Working Paper)
1 Feb 2013 | Farzana Afridi, Vegard Iversen, M.R. Sharan
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Blog post
Does political reservation for women improve programme delivery?
This column outlines results of a study that assesses the impact of women leaders on corruption and other aspects of the quality of delivery of MNREGA. It argues that administrative experience, training and institutional support are essential for making women’s political participation and affirmative action policies more effective. Political reservations for women create...
17 Jan 2013 | Farzana Afridi
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Project
Does Female Leadership Impact on the Quality of Public Goods? Evidence from a Public Poverty Alleviation Programme in Andhra Pradesh, India
Poor governance can be an important cause behind the disappointing performance of public programmes in developing countries. In this study we seek to identify the impact of female leadership on the governance of a large poverty alleviation programme in India, in a context where local people can closely monitor the actual against the prescribed allocation of public funds....
1 Apr 2012 | Farzana Afridi, Vegard Iversen, M.R. Sharan
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Project
Cognitive Effects of Supplementary School Feeding Programme
Afridi, Barooah and Somanathan use the exogenous policy shock of the extension of provision of school meals to upper primary grades in public schools in Delhi to study the effects of school meal intake on the cognitive effort of students within the classroom. Using individual level data on the performance of students in effort games both before and after the extension of...
1 Apr 2012 | Farzana Afridi
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Project
Information provision and the quality of education in rural India
This study seeks to understand whether providing information on the absolute and relative quality of schooling to the stakeholders affects the behavior of service providers in both the public and the private sector. The quality of public services offered to the poor, especially in health and education, is dismal in most developing countries. An often cited reason for the...
1 Apr 2011 | Farzana Afridi, Rohini Somanathan, Bidisha Barooah