A5011145606- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- ICT in Developing Communities
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Islamic Finance and Banking Studies
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- ICT Impact and Policies
- FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
- Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Social Capital and Networks
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
Ashoka University
2022-2024
National Institution for Transforming India Aayog
2023
Abstract Vaccine hesitancy and acceptance, driven by social influence, is usually explored most researchers using exhaustive survey-based studies, which investigate public preferences, fundamental values, beliefs, barriers, drivers through closed or open-ended questionnaires. Commonly used simple statistical tools do not justice to the richness of this data. Considering gradual development vaccine acceptance in a society multiple local/global factors as compartmental contagion process, we...
India’s coronavirus lockdown forced low-wage migrant workers to return from the city home towns and villages which they came. Pre-pandemic living working conditions were already stressful difficult for these migrants. The became an additional burden, since it shut down sources of income with no assurance about when, or if, work earning support families could be resumed. This article draws on lens Culture-Centered Approach (CCA) understand how engaged navigated times. A total 54 locked-down...
This study examines the underlying factors that drive gender differences in trust and trustworthiness. Is difference behavior motivated by variations social context norms? I this question conducting experiments comparable neighboring matrilineal patrilineal societies India. find subjects are more trusting than ones, although there is substantial heterogeneity across gender. In society, men significantly but no trustworthy women, while neither nor women. My findings thus suggest societal...
India witnessed a large surge in COVID-19 cases April 2021, second wave of nearly 350,000 daily new infections across the country. As December have reduced drastically, part due to greater vaccine coverage This study reports results on hesitancy, attitudes, and behaviors from an online survey conducted between February March 2021 nine Indian cities (N = 518). We find that hesitancy negatively predicts willingness take vaccine, beliefs about effectiveness supersede explaining uptake....
India witnessed a large surge in COVID-19 cases April 2021, second wave of nearly 350,000 daily new infections across the country. As December have reduced drastically, part due to greater vaccine coverage This study reports results on hesitancy, attitudes, and behaviors from an online survey conducted between February March 2021 nine Indian cities (N = 518). We find that hesitancy negatively predicts willingness take vaccine, beliefs about effectiveness supersede explaining uptake....
In this paper, we explore the link between likelihood of re-migration to cities and perceived threat contracting COVID-19 using data on male reverse migrant workers in India collected a telephonic survey. Using linear IV regression framework, find that independent duration migration, individuals who perceive positive chance have significantly lower stated return their urban work centres. We observe heterogeneity with respect migration as longer-term migrants disease than short-term migrants....