Dr Pallavi Choudhuri appointed as Deputy Director, NCAER-NDIC

Dr Pallavi Choudhuri has been designated as Deputy Director of the NCAER’s National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC). Dr Choudhuri is also the Senior Fellow at the NCAER-National Data Innovation Center (NDIC), with primary research interests in employment, social protection, social inequality and gender. She also co-leads NDIC’s Gender Hub.

GenderTalk: Gender and Internal Migration

Welcome to the fourth issue of GenderTalk from the NCAER-National Data Innovation Centre’s Gender Hub. In this issue of GenderTalk, we focus on the gender implications of internal migration in India. The drivers of women’s migration are complex and can include economic and educational opportunities, cultural practices surrounding family structure and marriage, desire for exploration of new built and social environments, a combination of these reasons, and many more.

India Human Development Survey: April 2024

The IHDS Forum is a monthly update of socio-economic developments in India by the IHDS research community, based on the India Human Development Survey, jointly conducted by NCAER and the University of Maryland. While two earlier rounds of the survey were completed in 2004-05 and 2011-12, respectively, the third round has also been launched and surveys have already been conducted in a number of States.

NCAER-NDIC initiates early career fellows

National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC), a part of the National Council of Applied Economic Research, seeks to build a community of scholars interested in the collection and analysis of survey data and contribute to the development of the field of survey methodology in India. NDIC seeks to develop a community of young scholars through a year-long non-residential fellowship program.

Key output of this program will be a high-quality measurement brief that will address some domains of human development, broadly defined.

Mr Suman Bery addressed first NDIC early career scholars meeting.