In an opinion piece for the Hindustan Times, Sonia Bhalotra explains how her research with co-authors T. Baskaran, B. Min, Y. Uppal demonstrates that raising the share of women in India’s state legislative assemblies is likely to lead to higher economic growth.
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ISER researchers discuss their work in these blog posts.
Are female legislators good for economic growth?
There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there is no evidence of how this influences economic performance. In a blog for the International Growth Centre, Professor Sonia Bhalotra and co-authors investigate this using data on competitive elections to India’s state legislative assemblies.
Beyond Shelter: The role of home in health and wellbeing
- Amy Clair
Dr Amy Clair has been looking at the impact of insecurity at home on our health and wellbeing.
How leader identity impacts group coordination
- Irma Clots-Figueras
- Lakshmi Iyer
- Joseph Vecci
- Sonia Bhalotra
In principle, leaders can facilitate group coordination towards a common goal but in diverse societies, their effectiveness may depend upon their social identity, and how citizens react to leader identity. Sonia Bhalotra and co-authors Irma Clots-Figueras (Madrid), Lakshmi Iyer (Notre Dame) and Joseph Vecci (Gothenburg) investigate in a blog for Ideas for India.
The ticking clock: how genetics may explain fertility traits
- Nicola Barban
- Melinda Mills
- Felix Tropf
A new study by MiSoC Co-Director Nicola Barban, with Melinda Mills and Felix Tropf of the University of Oxford, allows the inclusion of a genetic variable or predictor of reproductive behaviour in social science research for the first time.
When it comes to fees, what do students think?
In an article for the New Statesman, Dr Angus Holford explores in detail what students think of how university fees could be administered in a reformed system where the overall student contribution and taxpayer contribution stayed the same.
When gold prices go up, so does the cost of a dowry – and baby girl survival rates in India fall
Gold is a central component of dowries in India. Writing about her new research in The Conversation, Professor Sonia Bhalotra finds that when the cost of gold rises, so does the death rate of baby girls in the first month of life.
Difficult childhood experiences could make us age prematurely
In a new blog for the Conversation, Professor Meena Kumari and Research Associate Amanda Hughes investigate how socioeconomic disadvantage and other environmental factors can affect our biology and life expectancy.
Basic Income – testing of a fascinating policy
- Iva Valentinova Tasseva
Iva Tasseva looks at why ISER’s tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD is essential for analysing the morning-after effects of tax and benefit reforms, and how new studies using the model have tested out the controversial and increasingly politically fascinating idea of a Basic Income.
Lower child mortality: a boost to women’s labour market opportunities
- Atheendar Venkataramani
- Selma Walther
- Sonia Bhalotra
In a blog for Global Dev, MiSoC’s Professor Sonia Bhalotra together with Atheendar Venkataramani (Perelman School of Medicine) and Selma Walther (applied microeconomist) investigate whether public investments in reducing child mortality may encourage women into greater economic activity.
Innovations in surveys: the pioneers of targeted design
Professor Peter Lynn describes how ISER has pioneered a new approach to sample retention which promises to improve the value for money of longitudinal surveys.
The distribution of the gender wage gap
- Manuel Fernandez Sierra
Using a quarter of a century’s data from Mexico, ISER’s Professor Sonia Bhalotra and Manuel Fernandez Sierra analyse the impacts of the rising number of women in the labour force on the gender wage gap.