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Sisir Debnath

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Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, MS 607 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 Delhi, India

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Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

New Delhi, India
https://hss.iitd.ac.in/
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Working papers

  1. Afridi, Farzana & Debnath, Sisir & Dinkelman, Taryn & Sareen, Komal, 2022. "Time for Clean Energy? Cleaner Fuels and Women's Time in Home Production," IZA Discussion Papers 15120, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  2. Afridi, Farzana & Debnath, Sisir & Somanathan, E., 2020. "A Breath of Fresh Air: Raising Awareness for Clean Fuel Adoption," IZA Discussion Papers 13967, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

Articles

  1. Afridi, Farzana & Debnath, Sisir & Somanathan, E., 2021. "A breath of fresh air: Raising awareness for clean fuel adoption," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 151(C).
  2. Sisir Debnath, 2021. "Improving Maternal Health Using Incentives for Mothers and Health Care Workers: Evidence from India," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 69(2), pages 685-725.
  3. Sisir Debnath & Tarun Jain, 2020. "Social connections and tertiary health‐care utilization," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 29(4), pages 464-474, April.
  4. Sisir Debnath, 2015. "The Impact of Household Structure on Female Autonomy in Developing Countries," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 51(5), pages 485-502, May.
  5. Sheetal Sekhri & Sisir Debnath, 2014. "Intergenerational Consequences of Early Age Marriages of Girls: Effect on Children's Human Capital," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 50(12), pages 1670-1686, December.

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Working papers

  1. Afridi, Farzana & Debnath, Sisir & Dinkelman, Taryn & Sareen, Komal, 2022. "Time for Clean Energy? Cleaner Fuels and Women's Time in Home Production," IZA Discussion Papers 15120, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

    Cited by:

    1. Chen, Jiahui & Liao, Hua & Zhang, Tong, 2024. "Empowering women substantially accelerates the household clean energy transition in China," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 187(C).
    2. Su, Qinghe & Azam, Mehtabul, 2022. "Does Access to Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Reduce Women Household Burden? Evidence from India," IZA Discussion Papers 15842, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    3. Totouom, Armand, 2024. "Women's decision-making power and the adoption of liquefied petroleum gas for cooking in Cameroon," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 184(C).

  2. Afridi, Farzana & Debnath, Sisir & Somanathan, E., 2020. "A Breath of Fresh Air: Raising Awareness for Clean Fuel Adoption," IZA Discussion Papers 13967, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

    Cited by:

    1. Farzana Afridi & Sisir Debnath & Taryn Dinkelman & Komal Sareen, 2023. "Time for Clean Energy? Cleaner Fuels and Women’s Time in Home Production," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, vol. 37(2), pages 283-304.
    2. Mekonnen, Alemu & Hassen, Sied & Jaime, Marcela & Toman, Michael & Zhang, Xiao-Bing, 2023. "The effect of information and subsidy on adoption of solar lanterns: An application of the BDM bidding mechanism in rural Ethiopia," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 124(C).
    3. Ujjayant Chakravorty & Ridhima Gupta & Martino Pelli, 2022. "The economics of rural energy use in developing countries," CIRANO Working Papers 2022s-12, CIRANO.
    4. Dou Xiangsheng & Ishaq Fizza, 2023. "Regional Environment Risk Assessment Over Space and Time: A Case of China," Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment Journal, De Gruyter, vol. 17(1), pages 1-19.
    5. Vyas, Sangita & Gupta, Aashish & Khalid, Nazar, 2021. "Gender and LPG use after government intervention in rural north India," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 148(C).
    6. Vasilaky, Kathryn & Harou, Aurélie & Alfredo, Katherine & Kapur, Ishita, 2023. "What works for water conservation? Evidence from a field experiment in India," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 119(C).
    7. THIVILLON, Thomas, 2022. "Saving lives with cooking gas? Unintended effects of LPG subsidies in Peru," SocArXiv yh5xs, Center for Open Science.
    8. Mahadevan, Meera & Meeks, Robyn & Yamano, Takashi, 2023. "Reducing information barriers to solar adoption: Experimental evidence from India," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 120(C).

Articles

  1. Afridi, Farzana & Debnath, Sisir & Somanathan, E., 2021. "A breath of fresh air: Raising awareness for clean fuel adoption," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 151(C).
    See citations under working paper version above.
  2. Sisir Debnath, 2021. "Improving Maternal Health Using Incentives for Mothers and Health Care Workers: Evidence from India," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 69(2), pages 685-725.

    Cited by:

    1. Kekre, Aishwarya & Mahajan, Kanika, 2023. "Maternity support and child health: Unintended gendered effects," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 51(3), pages 880-898.
    2. Prabal K. De & Laxman Timilsina, 2020. "Cash‐based maternal health interventions can improve childhood vaccination—Evidence from India," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 29(10), pages 1202-1219, October.
    3. Sudha Narayanan & Shree Saha, 2020. "Take home rations (THR) and cash transfers for maternal and child nutrition: A Synthesis of evidence in India," Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai Working Papers 2020-039, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India.
    4. Kumar, Santosh & Prakash, Nishith, 2017. "Effect of political decentralization and female leadership on institutional births and child mortality in rural Bihar, India," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 185(C), pages 171-178.
    5. Edward N. Okeke & Amalavoyal V. Chari, 2015. "Can Institutional Deliveries Reduce Newborn Mortality? Evidence from Rwanda," Working Papers WR-1072, RAND Corporation.

  3. Sisir Debnath & Tarun Jain, 2020. "Social connections and tertiary health‐care utilization," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 29(4), pages 464-474, April.

    Cited by:

    1. Pushkar Maitra & Sandip Mitra & Dilip Mookherjee & Sujata Visaria, 2021. "Decentralized Targeting of Agricultural Credit Programs: Private versus Political Intermediaries," Monash Economics Working Papers 2021-19, Monash University, Department of Economics.
    2. Neha Agarwal & Anaka Aiyar & Andrew Bergmann & Joseph Cummins & Jingyan Guo & Vaishali Jain, 2024. "Caste Differences in Child Growth: Disentangling Endowment and Investment Effects," Working Papers 202401, University of California at Riverside, Department of Economics.
    3. Malani, Anup & Kinnan, Cynthia & Conti, Gabriella & Imai, Kosuke & Miller, Morgen & Swaminathan, Shailender & Voena, Alessandra & Woda, Bartek, 2024. "Evaluating and Pricing Health Insurance in Lower-Income Countries: A Field Experiment in India," IZA Discussion Papers 17185, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    4. Gatua, Josephine G., 2024. "Decentralization, social connections and primary health care: Evidence from Kenya," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 178(C).
    5. Hodor, Michal, 2021. "Family health spillovers: evidence from the RAND health insurance experiment," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 79(C).
    6. Digvijay S. Negi & Christopher B. Barrett, 2024. "Consumption Smoothing, Commodity Markets, and Informal Transfers," Working Papers 116, Ashoka University, Department of Economics.

  4. Sisir Debnath, 2015. "The Impact of Household Structure on Female Autonomy in Developing Countries," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 51(5), pages 485-502, May.

    Cited by:

    1. S Anukriti & Catalina Herrera‐Almanza & Praveen K. Pathak & Mahesh Karra, 2020. "Curse of the Mummy‐ji: The Influence of Mothers‐in‐Law on Women in India†," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 102(5), pages 1328-1351, October.
    2. Rajshri Jayaraman & Bisma Khan, 2023. "Does Co-Residence with Parents-In-Law Reduce Women’s Employment in India?," CESifo Working Paper Series 10238, CESifo.
    3. Gram, Lu & Skordis-Worrall, Jolene & Mannell, Jenevieve & Manandhar, Dharma S. & Saville, Naomi & Morrison, Joanna, 2018. "Revisiting the patriarchal bargain: The intergenerational power dynamics of household money management in rural Nepal," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 112(C), pages 193-204.
    4. Bargain, Olivier & Boutin, Delphine & Champeaux, Hugues, 2018. "Women's Political Participation and Intrahousehold Empowerment: Evidence from the Egyptian Arab Spring," IZA Discussion Papers 11534, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    5. Veeramani, Choorikkad & Banerjee, Purna, 2022. "Exchange rate fluctuations, labour laws, and gender differences in job flows: Analysis of manufacturing industries across Indian states," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 152(C).
    6. Rajshri Jayaraman & Bisma Khan, 2023. "Does Co-Residence with Parents-In-Law Reduce Women’s Employment in India?," Working Papers 2023-004, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group.
    7. S Anukriti & Catalina Herrera-Almanza & Mahesh Karra & Praveen Kumar Pathak, 2020. "Curse of the Mummy-ji: The Influence of Mothers-in-Law on Women in India," Boston University - Department of Economics - The Institute for Economic Development Working Papers Series dp-337, Boston University - Department of Economics.
    8. Gupta, Tanu & Negi, Digvijay S., 2021. "Daughter vs. Daughter-in-Law: Kinship Roles and Women's Time Use in India," 2021 Annual Meeting, August 1-3, Austin, Texas 313373, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    9. Bargain, Olivier & Lacroix, Guy & Tiberti, Luca, 2018. "Validating the Collective Model of Household Consumption Using Direct Evidence on Sharing," IZA Discussion Papers 11653, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    10. Abhilasha Srivastava, 2020. "Time Use and Household Division of Labor in India—Within‐Gender Dynamics," Population and Development Review, The Population Council, Inc., vol. 46(2), pages 249-285, June.
    11. Deininger,Klaus W. & Jin,Songqing & Nagarajan,Hari Krishnan & Singh,Sudhir K., 2020. "Political Reservation and Female Labor Force Participation in Rural India," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9350, The World Bank.
    12. Clémentine Sadania, 2016. "Working and Women’s Empowerment in the Egyptian Household: The Type of Work and Location Matter," Working Papers halshs-01525220, HAL.
    13. Chakravorty, Swastika & Goli, Srinivas, 2021. "Family Structure, Economic Outcomes and Perceived Change in Economic Well-being in India," OSF Preprints 23kvs, Center for Open Science.
    14. Sowmya Dhanaraj & Vidya Mahambare, 2017. "Family structure, education and women's employment in rural India," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2017-195, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    15. Rajkumar, Vidya Bharathi, 2021. "Male Migration and the Emergence of Female Farm Management in India," 2021 Conference, August 17-31, 2021, Virtual 315329, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    16. Rajshri Jayaraman & Bisma Khan, 2023. "Does co-residence with parents-in-law reduce women's employment in India?," Working Papers tecipa-747, University of Toronto, Department of Economics.
    17. Balhasan Ali & Preeti Dhillon & Sivakami Muthusamy & Udaya Shankar Mishra, 2023. "Understanding Female Labour Force Participation and Domestic Work in India: The Role of Co-residence and Household Composition," Journal of Development Policy and Practice, , vol. 8(2), pages 162-193, July.
    18. Bhattacharya, Leena, 2023. "Time allocation of daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law in India: The role of education as bargaining power," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1343, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
    19. Umair Khalil & Sulagna Mookerjee & Arijit Ray, 2024. "Post-marital residence and female wellbeing," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 37(2), pages 1-31, June.
    20. Perelli, Chiara & Cacchiarelli, Luca & Peveri, Valentina & Branca, Giacomo, 2024. "Gender equality and sustainable development: A cross-country study on women's contribution to the adoption of the climate-smart agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 219(C).

  5. Sheetal Sekhri & Sisir Debnath, 2014. "Intergenerational Consequences of Early Age Marriages of Girls: Effect on Children's Human Capital," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 50(12), pages 1670-1686, December.

    Cited by:

    1. Le, Dung D. & Molina, Teresa & Ibuka, Yoko & Goto, Rei, 2024. "The Intergenerational Health Effects of Child Marriage Bans," IZA Discussion Papers 17089, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. M. Niaz Asadullah & Zaki Wahhaj, 2017. "Early marriage, social networks and the transmission of norms," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series 162017, GDI, The University of Manchester.
    3. Hélène Giacobino & Elise Huillery & Bastien Michel & Mathilde Sage, 2022. "Schoolgirls Not Brides: Secondary Education as a Shield Against Child Marriage," Working Papers DT/2022/01, DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation).
    4. Seth R. Gitter & Onyedikachukwu Onyemeziem & William Corcoran, 2023. "Menarche, Marriage Age, Education, and Employment in Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia," Working Papers 2023-04, Towson University, Department of Economics, revised Sep 2023.
    5. Villar, Paola, 2021. "Paternal mortality, early marriages, and marital trajectories in Senegal," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 142(C).
    6. Naveen Sunder, 2019. "Marriage Age, Social Status, and Intergenerational Effects in Uganda," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 56(6), pages 2123-2146, December.
    7. McGavock, Tamara, 2021. "Here waits the bride? The effect of Ethiopia's child marriage law," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 149(C).
    8. Cristina Bellés-Obreroy & María Lombardi, 2020. "Will you marry me, later? Age-of-marriage laws and child marriage in Mexico," Department of Economics Working Papers wp_gob_2020_11, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
    9. Lisa Cameron & Diana Contreras Suarez & Susan Wieczkiewicz, 2023. "Child marriage: using the Indonesian family life survey to examine the lives of women and men who married at an early age," Review of Economics of the Household, Springer, vol. 21(3), pages 725-756, September.
    10. Trong-Anh Trinh & Quanda Zhang, 2021. "Adverse shocks, household expenditure and child marriage: evidence from India and Vietnam," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 61(3), pages 1617-1639, September.
    11. Paola A. Suarez, 2018. "Child-bride marriage and female welfare," European Journal of Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 45(1), pages 1-28, February.
    12. Igei, Kengo & Yuki, Takako, 2015. "Determinants of School Enrollment of Girls in Rural Yemen: Parental Aspirations and Attitudes toward Girls’ Education," Working Papers 107, JICA Research Institute.
    13. Jorge Garcia-Hombrados, 2022. "Child marriage and infant mortality: causal evidence from Ethiopia," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 35(3), pages 1163-1223, July.
    14. Jorge Garcia Hombrados, 2018. "Empirical essays on development economics," Economics PhD Theses 0318, Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School.
    15. Bazarkulova, Dana & Compton, Janice, 2021. "Marriage traditions and investment in education: The case of bride kidnapping," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 49(1), pages 147-163.
    16. Javed, Rashid & Mughal, Mazhar, 2020. "Girls Not Brides: Evolution of Child Marriage in Pakistan," GLO Discussion Paper Series 731, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
    17. Chari, A.V. & Heath, Rachel & Maertens, Annemie & Fatima, Freeha, 2017. "The causal effect of maternal age at marriage on child wellbeing: Evidence from India," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 127(C), pages 42-55.
    18. Delprato, Marcos, 2023. "Children and adolescents educational gender gaps across the lifecourse in sub-Saharan Africa: On the role of mothers' lack of empowerment as a barrier for girls' educational performance," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 103(C).
    19. Paul, Pintu, 2019. "Effects of education and poverty on the prevalence of girl child marriage in India: A district–level analysis," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 100(C), pages 16-21.
    20. Li, Chuhui & Cheng, Wenli & Shi, Hui, 2021. "Early marriage and maternal health care utilisation: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 43(C).
    21. Shonazarova, Shirin & Eshchanov, Bahtiyor, 2020. "The determinants of early marriage and under-five child mortality in Afghanistan," MPRA Paper 107684, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    22. Duggal, Khushi, 2023. "The Relationship between Child Marriage and Female Educational Attainment in India," Warwick-Monash Economics Student Papers 57, Warwick Monash Economics Student Papers.
    23. Baten, Joerg & de Pleijt, Alexandra M., 2022. "Female autonomy generated successful long-term human capital development: Evidence from 16th to 19th century Europe," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 158(C).
    24. Sajeda Amin & M Niaz Asadullah & Sara Hossain & Zaki Wahhaj, 2017. "Can Conditional Transfers Eradicate Child Marriage?," Working Papers id:11687, eSocialSciences.
    25. J. García-Hombrados, 2018. "Child Marriage and Infant Mortality: Evidence from Ethiopia," Working Papers 2018-07, FEDEA.
    26. Amirapu, Amrit & Asadullah, M Niaz & Wahhaj, Zaki, 2022. "Can Child Marriage Law Affect Attitudes and Behaviour in the Absence of Strict Enforcement? Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1107, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
    27. Dhamija, Gaurav & Roychowdhury, Punarjit, 2018. "The impact of women's age at marriage on own and spousal labor market outcomes in India: causation or selection?," MPRA Paper 86686, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    28. Wahhaj, Zaki, 2018. "An economic model of early marriage," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 152(C), pages 147-176.

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  1. NEP-DEV: Development (2) 2021-01-18 2022-04-25
  2. NEP-ENE: Energy Economics (2) 2021-01-18 2022-04-25
  3. NEP-ENV: Environmental Economics (1) 2022-04-25
  4. NEP-LMA: Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages (1) 2022-04-25

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