Protecting health in dry cities: considerations for policy makers Sonalde Desai Howard Frumkin, Maitreyi Bordia Das, Maya Negev, Briony C Rogers, Roberto Bertollini and Carlos Dora

Increasing health and wellbeing in cities that experience water scarcity presents challenges, but can be done, say Howard Frumkin and colleagues.

Time use patterns and household adversities: A lens to understand the construction of gender privilege among children and adolescents in India Dibyasree Ganguly Kriti Vikram and Srinivas Goli

We investigate gender differences in time-use patterns in 1891 children and assess how time is reallocated in response to challenges faced by households in India. We use adaptations made within a household during adversities to understand how gender inequality in time use is produced and...   Read More

To Answer or Not to Answer: What Determines Telephone Survey Response Rates in Times of Lockdown? Neerad Deshmukh Manjistha Banerji

Surveys in low- and middle-income countries evoke much higher response than those in richer countries. This has led to a situation wherein there is much less interest by researchers on various factors that might be impacting survey response in the former. However, many factors, including...   Read More

Gender and Generation: Landownership and Older Indians’ Autonomy Sonalde Desai Debasis Barik Hope Xu Yan

While increased access to household assets has been shown to improve older individuals’ autonomy and bargaining power at home, the role of gender hierarchy in shaping differential impacts of household assets has received far less attention. This article explores the gender asymmetry in the association...   Read More

Urban Exclusion: Rethinking Social Protection in the Wake of the Pandemic in India Pallavi Choudhuri Santanu Pramanik Sonalde Desai

The COVID-19 pandemic, and the consequent nationwide lockdown in India that began on 25 March 2020, caused a major disruption in the labour market, leading to the widespread loss of livelihoods and food insecurity. The findings from a telephonic survey of a representative sample of...   Read More