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IHDS Receives Gates Foundation Award

Parren Mitchell Art-Sociology Building

Sonalde Desai and Feinian Chen have recently received an award from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for $1.5million to add measures of women’s economic empowerment into the next wave of the longitudinal panel study, India Human Development Survey (IHDS). IHDS has been ongoing since 2004-5 and includes a survey of over 40,000 households spread across India.  It is designed to study changes in the lives of Indian families over a period of rapid transformation.  

Two women walking on a path holding a basket

Feinian Chen (Co-PI) Picture

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