Media & Dissemination

February 7, 2023
February 7, 2023

Farzana Afridi speaks at a session on clean cooking fuels, at India Energy Week

December 9, 2022
December 9, 2022

Afridi delivers the keynote lecture at a Conference on ‘Indian Women and Paid Work’, organised by Great Lakes Institute of Management

April 13, 2022
April 13, 2022

Afridi delivers the keynote address at the Royal Economic Society Annual Conference (Ashoka University Hub Event)

October 20, 2021
October 20, 2021

Afridi speaks at the ‘Covid-19 and Emerging Markets’ session of the Annual Global Conference of Milken Institute

September 20, 2021
September 20, 2021

Afridi hosts an e-Symposium on ‘Ideas for India’ on Covid-19 and mental health, with a special focus on women and children

September 6, 2021
September 6, 2021

Afridi discusses findings from the clean fuel project at a webinar organised by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water

July 14, 2021
July 14, 2021

Afridi, Monisankar Bishnu and Kanika Mahajan write about the gendered effects of agricultural mechanisation, in an Ideas for India blog.

July 14, 2021
July 14, 2021

Afridi speaks at a panel on ‘Emerging from the long shadow of Covid-19’ at the India Policy Forum 2021, organised by NCAER.

July 2, 2021
July 2, 2021

Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, and Sanchari Roy write about findings from the Covid-19 Survey, on the impact of the second wave on urban poor, in an Ideas for India blog.

May 12, 2021
May 12, 2021

Kathleen Beegle writes about the paper on Covid-19 and MNREGA, in a World Bank Blog.

May 5, 2021
May 5, 2021

Afridi discusses findings from the Covid-19 Survey at the release of report on ‘State of Working India 2021: One year of Covid-19’, by Azim Premji University.

May 5, 2021
May 5, 2021

Afridi discusses findings from the Covid-19 Survey at a conference on ‘Impact of Covid-19 in India and Pathways to Recovery’ organised by IGC India.

May 3, 2021
May 3, 2021

Roy discusses findings from the Covid-19 Survey at a session on ‘The gendered crisis: Livelihoods and mental well-being in India during Covid-19’, organised by the Bangalore International Centre.

April 27, 2021
April 27, 2021

Afridi presents findings from the agriculture project at the NUS-SMU Development Economics Workshop

March 5, 2021
March 5, 2021

Afridi discusses findings from the Covid-19 Survey at a panel discussion on ‘Accelerating gender equality in India post-COVID’, organised by the London School of Economics in the run-up to International Women’s Day. Click here for video, podcast, and blog.

March 4, 2021
March 4, 2021

Afridi presents findings from the agriculture project at the 2nd Annual Economics Conference of Ahmedabad University

February 22, 2021
February 22, 2021

Afridi discusses findings from the clean fuel project at a seminar organised by Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

February 11, 2021
February 11, 2021

Afridi, Mahajan and Nikita Sangwan write on Did MNREGA Cushion Job Losses During the COVID-19 Crisis?, The Wire (published in collaboration with Ideas for India)

January 14, 2021
January 14, 2021

Afridi presents the paper titled ‘Gendering Technological Change: Evidence from Agricultural Mechanization’ at the STEG-CEPR Annual Conference.

December 22, 2020
December 22, 2020

Mahajan presents the paper titled ‘Covid-19, Employment, and the Role of Social Protection Programs’ at the 4th Consumer Pyramids Research Seminar organised by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy Pvt. Ltd. (CMIE).

December 17, 2020
December 17, 2020

Afridi presents findings from the clean fuel project at a seminar organised by the Economics Department, National University of Singapore.

December 10, 2020
December 10, 2020

Afridi delivers the Prof. K. Vasanthi Devi Endowment Lecture on ‘Raising women’s labour force participation in India: What will it take?’ at Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai.

December 02, 2020
December 02, 2020

Mahajan presents findings from the agriculture project at a seminar organised by IDinsight.

November 28, 2020
November 28, 2020

Mahajan delivers a talk titled ‘Gender and jobs: Exploring the demand side in India’ at Women in Econ and Policy.

November 19, 2020
November 19, 2020

Afridi delivers a keynote on ‘Women’s work, production technology and the environment’ at the Environment for Development Initiative’s (EfD) Annual Conference.

November 13, 2020
November 13, 2020

Afridi delivers a seminar based on the paper ‘A breath of fresh air: Raising awareness for clean fuel adoption’, for the University of Texas at Austin.

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October 07, 2020

Afridi, Dhillon, and Arka Roy Chaudhuri write on Poorest districts with largest number of migrants are the ones that need to generate employment, Op-ed, Indian Express

September 18, 2020
September 18, 2020

Roy presents findings from the Covid-19 survey at a workshop on ‘Covid-19 and the Indian economy‘ organised by the Society for Economics Research in India (SERI).

August 2, 2020
August 2, 2020

Afridi writes about the clean fuel project in an article on What does India need to do to clean up its air? for India in Transition, Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), University of Pennsylvania

June 11th, 2020
June 11th, 2020

Afridi presents findings from the clean fuel project, in a virtual seminar on ‘A breath of fresh air: Raising awareness for clean fuel adoption’, organised by CASI, University of Pennsylvania

May 27, 2020
May 27, 2020

Afridi gives an interview to HuffPost on how the government should provide jobs to the migrants who have returned home on account of the ongoing Covid-19 crisis

May 14, 2020
May 14, 2020

Afridi discusses findings from a phone survey of a subset of the sample of the manufacturing project, in a Webinar on ‘The impact of COVID-19 on informal and migrant workers in India’, organised by the International Growth Centre (IGC) and ‘Ideas for India’

May 11 , 2020
May 11 , 2020

Afridi, Dhillon, and Roy write on How the Covid-19 crisis has affected the urban poor on Ideas for India (Hindi version here) and The Wire, based on the Covid phone survey. Short videos by authors for social media can be viewed here (English) and here (Hindi)

April 13, 2020
April 13, 2020

 A summary of the Workshop on ‘Women in the Economy’ held at the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi in March 2020, is published on ‘Ideas for India’

March 7, 2020
March 7, 2020

Afridi is quoted in an article on How India’s workforce participation rate of women has sharply declined over the years in Economic Times for International Women’s Day

January, 9 2020
January, 9 2020

Farzana Afridi suggests raising rural consumption demand by increasing women’s economic participation, at pre-Budget consultation with the Prime Minister

December 6, 2019
December 6, 2019

Afridi speaks at a panel on Gender and Labour at the IGC India Conference Closing the Gender Gap: Health, Education and Economic Opportunities in Patna, Bihar

October 17, 2019
October 17, 2019

Afridi speaks on Double Bind of Income Poverty and Time Poverty: Why it Matters for Sustainable Development and Policy Solutions for Women at the United Nations General Assembly, New York. Video available here

September 17, 2019
September 17, 2019

Afridi and Eesha Kunduri write about preliminary findings from the women in manufacturing project in an Op-Ed Can relocating industries help women job seekers?, Hindustan Times

September 10, 2019
September 10, 2019

Afridi presents findings from the clean fuel project at a panel on Expanding Opportunities in India’s Labour Market: Gender, Skills, Migration at the IGC India Research Conference: Evidence For Inclusive Growth in New Delhi

September 02, 2019
September 02, 2019

Afridi joins the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) Panel on Population, Poverty and Inequality, 2018-21

August 17, 2019
August 17, 2019

Afridi examines the impact of Ujjwala on women’s time-use in rural India in an Op-Ed, Business Standard

August 06, 2019
August 06, 2019

E. Somanathan writes on Raising the awareness for clean cooking, Collaborative Clean Air Policy Centre

July 26, 2019
July 26, 2019

Sisir Debnath discusses preliminary findings and recommendations from the clean fuel project at a meeting attended by representatives of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG), and NITI Aayog, TERI, New Delhi

June 25-26, 2019
June 25-26, 2019

Afridi speaks on the clean fuel project at the Sustainable Development Workshop, Monash University in Prato Centre, Italy

July 13-14, 2019
July 13-14, 2019

Kanika Mahajan presents the women’s labour supply project at the Annual Conference of the Society for Economic Research in India at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur 

July 08, 2019
July 08, 2019

Kunduri discusses insights from the women in manufacturing project in an Op-Ed To get more women in labour force, India must stop pushing industrial areas to city limits, ThePrint (Shorter version of CPR Polihttps://www.cprindia.org/policy-challenge/7949/urbanisationcy Document)

June 27-29, 2019
June 27-29, 2019

Afridi speaks on the women’s labour supply project at the IUSSP Conference on Population, Poverty and Inequality in Ann Arbor, Michigan

June 13-14, 2019
June 13-14, 2019

Mahajan presents preliminary results from the women in agriculture project at a workshop on Women’s Access to Paid Work in South Asia and MENA: Barriers, Opportunities and Policy Challenges at the London School of Economics, London 

June 06-07, 2019
June 06-07, 2019

Mahajan presents the women’s labour supply project at 2nd IZA/World Bank/NJD Conference on Jobs and Development in Washington D.C.

May 17, 2019
May 17, 2019

Afridi speaks on Home production, technology and women’s time allocation in India at the 1st Bimonthly Seminar of IWWAGE in Delhi

February 28, 2019
February 28, 2019

Afridi speaks on panel discussion on Teen age Girls (TAG) Report at Brookings India in Delhi

February 05, 2019
February 05, 2019

Afridi speaks on panel on improving women’s welfare through Ujjwala program at the Asia LPG Summit in Delhi 

December 17, 2018
December 17, 2018

E. Somanathan speaks on the clean fuel project at a panel discussion on ‘Research for Policy Action on Air Pollution’ organised by the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) in collaboration with the Centre for Research on Economics of Climate, Food, Energy, and Environment (CECFEE) in Delhi

July 04, 2018
July 04, 2018

Afridi and Mahajan write on The marriage penalty on women in India, Op-ed, Mint