India Human Development Survey (IHDS)

Does education move everyone towards better employment at the same pace?

New research by IHDS team members @SonaldeDesai (Professor and Centre Director, NCAER-National Data Innovation Centre; Distinguished University Professor Emerita, University of Maryland) and @Pallavi_Econ (Professor and Deputy Director, NCAER-National Data Innovation Centre) using panel data from @NCAER’s India Human Development Survey (IHDS) examines how college education shapes access to white-collar jobs among young men in India.

The findings suggest that education can facilitate movement away from casual work, but the occupational escalator moves faster for those from privileged backgrounds, potentially reinforcing existing inequalities even as educational attainment expands.

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Using two rounds of @ncaer's IHDS data (IHDS-I & IHDS-II), new research examines how borrowing to meet non-communicable disease-related healthcare expenses can contribute to household impoverishment. By incorporating loan repayments into the measurement of household consumption, the study identifies financial vulnerability that may remain obscured when impoverishment is assessed using conventional consumption-based measures alone.

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Explore the latest findings from the October edition of the IHDS Research Digest📊
Using @ncaer's India Human Development Survey data, this issue features (a) research exploring how healthcare-related borrowing and loan repayments can reveal hidden dimensions of impoverishment, and (b) a study examining how the occupational benefits of college education differ across socioeconomic backgrounds. Together, the findings highlight how financial pressures and unequal returns to education shape economic outcomes in India.

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Does housing precarity change the pathways to basic services?
New research by Amrita Vijay Jain and @borateaishwarya utilises @ncaer's IHDS-II data to examine patronage and collective action networks as pathways to accessing water, electricity, sanitation and cooking gas. The findings suggest that materially precarious households make greater use of both, while socioeconomic resources are associated with stronger network-mediated benefits.

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How does irrigation access shape what farming households eat?
Using @ncaer's IHDS-II data, new research by @rajan_abhis and @OlesyaAgEcon examines the effects of irrigation on household food consumption and diet quality. The findings suggest shifts in the consumption of some foods such as milk and wheat, with effects on several nutrient-rich foods appearing more limited. A stronger correlation between groundwater irrigation and nutrient-dense food consumption in the findings points to the potential for more nutrition-sensitive irrigation policies.

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