It shows how Indians View Gender Roles in Families and Society and indicates Indians accept women as political leaders, but many favour traditional gender roles in family life.
Dr. Sriya Iyer has given expert advice to a new Pew Research Center report saying all religious groups in India show major declines in fertility rates, limiting change in the country’s religious composition over time.
The Wall Street Journal has picked up on the latest report from the Pew Research Center, which features expert advice from Dr. Sriya Iyer. She looks at how religious pluralism is faring in India, a religiously diverse county, where many religions practice freely.
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed for the Russian newspaper Izvestia about the increase in world wide COVID-19 cases. The article also looks at the catastrophic situation in India and the recent coronavirus outbreaks in other Asian countries.
Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes was interviewed by the Times of India about his recent study on the economic consequences of Covid-19. Dr Mohaddes spoke about the direct and indirect effects of this, within the interconnected global economy and how climate change could also be hit severely by it.
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Dr Sriya Iyer was interviewed by Dr Shruti Rajagopalan for the Ideas of India podcast (Mercatus Center, Washington DC).
Dr. Sriya Iyer was invited by the Chief Economist's Office at the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to give a talk on her research on the economics of religion in India.
Religion has not been a popular target for economic analysis. Yet the tools of economics can offer deep insights into how religious groups compete, deliver social services, and reach out to potential converts—how, in daily life, religions nurture and deploy market power.
In her 2018 Harvard University Press book, Sriya uses economic methods to study religion. Religion is not a popular target for economic analysis.
Dr Rohit Lamba has written a tribute to Angus Deaton, "Ideas Over Methods". The article has been published in the Indian Express.
Dr Rohit Lamba & Arvind Subramanian have had an article on "Why India should focus on Leverage and not just Capital Adequacy" published in India's Business Standard.
Cambridge-INET Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Rohit Lamba has had an article on "Five Questions on India's Credit" published in the Indian Business Standard. In which Dr Lamba, along with Sutirtha Roy & Arvind Subramanian, argue that India's credit and banking are neither too big nor too small.
Religious organisations in India are diversifying their "business model" to maintain the loyalty of their followers and attract new devotees. Read about Sriya Iyer's research on the University of Cambridge news.