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Employment Guaranteed? Social Protection During a Pandemic

Afridi, Farzana; Mahajan, Kanika; Sangwan, Nikita - 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the potential of social protection programs in mitigating labor market shocks. We examine the role of one of the world's largest employment guarantee schemes, India's MG-NREGA, in cushioning job losses in one of the worst affected economies due to the...

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Improving Learning Outcomes Through Information Provision : Evidence from Indian Villages

Afridi, Farzana - 2017

either intra or both intra and inter school performance of students in curriculum based tests. We find significant … improvement in test scores of private school students by 0.31 standard deviations when information on both absolute and relative … school quality is provided to households and schools. There are no significant improvements in the learning outcomes of …

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The Mixture as Before? Student Responses to the Changing Content of School Meals in India

Afridi, Farzana - 2016

We study how attendance rates of primary school children respond to cost neutral changes in the design of India's school meal program. Municipal schools in the capital region of Delhi switched from packaged food to on-site cooked meals in 2003, with insignificant changes in the budget available...

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The Gendered Crisis : Livelihoods and Mental Well-Being in India During Covid-19

Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Roy, Sanchari - 2023

This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points during pandemic relative to pre-pandemic employment, while their...

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