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Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India

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Journal article
Published: 23 June 2021 in Energy Policy
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As household electrification rates continue to increase globally, the focus in energy access planning is increasingly shifting towards quality of service. To inform this planning, we explore changes in household electricity and people's use and satisfaction with their service over time in rural India. Fielded in 2015, the ACCESS survey collected data on energy access from more than 8,500 households living across six Indian states. In 2018, the same households were re-surveyed. Using this longitudinal dataset, we sketch the changes in electricity access that took place during these three years. We find that access and the quality of supply have both improved substantially, with a 17 percentage points increase in electrification rates (95% CI: [15,19]). However, a large minority (about one fifth) remains unsatisfied with its electricity access. People's satisfaction levels were more sensitive to the quality of supply in 2018 compared to 2015. We propose that this change is a result of evolving expectations of electricity services that are offered. As households climb electricity access tiers and acquire more and larger electric appliances (such as fans or TVs), their demands increasingly shift from focusing on the extensive margin of supply to its intensive margin.

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Michaël Aklin; Namrata Chindarkar; Johannes Urpelainen; Abhishek Jain; Karthik Ganesan. The hedonic treadmill: Electricity access in India has increased, but so have expectations. Energy Policy 2021, 156, 112391 .

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Michaël Aklin, Namrata Chindarkar, Johannes Urpelainen, Abhishek Jain, Karthik Ganesan. The hedonic treadmill: Electricity access in India has increased, but so have expectations. Energy Policy. 2021; 156 ():112391.

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Michaël Aklin; Namrata Chindarkar; Johannes Urpelainen; Abhishek Jain; Karthik Ganesan. 2021. "The hedonic treadmill: Electricity access in India has increased, but so have expectations." Energy Policy 156, no. : 112391.

Journal article
Published: 13 October 2020 in World Development
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Rural energy access in India has improved steadily over the last decade. This progress is attributed to national energy reforms that aim to not only expand access to grid electricity and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) but also to improve quality of access. Considering the historical caste-based energy access disparities unique to the Indian context, how equitable have recent improvements been? Using panel data representative of rural areas in six of India’s poorest states, we apply a linear regression model with caste and year interactions to quantify changes in energy access for historically marginalized Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST) households relative to the all others between 2015–2018. We find that overall, inequities in an SC/ST household’s likelihood to obtain an LPG connection reduced (by 4.6%-points [95% CI: 0.7 to 7.7]). In contrast, overall inequities in grid connection likelihoods remained consistent. Looking beyond binary connection rates, we find that an SC/ST household’s supply improved less in terms of daily supply hours (by 1.42 h [CI: 1 to 1.83]) and monthly outage days (by 1 day [CI: 0.7 to 1.3]). Disaggregate analyses indicate that these broader trends are composed of distinct state-level trends modified by differences in baselines, marginalised population distributions, institutional capacity and accountability. Energy policy reform in India must consider caste-based inequities and take advantage of multi-dimensional supply measurement to encourage equitable and just progress towards sustainable energy access for all sections of the population.

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Setu Pelz; Namrata Chindarkar; Johannes Urpelainen. Energy access for marginalized communities: Evidence from rural North India, 2015–2018. World Development 2020, 137, 105204 .

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Setu Pelz, Namrata Chindarkar, Johannes Urpelainen. Energy access for marginalized communities: Evidence from rural North India, 2015–2018. World Development. 2020; 137 ():105204.

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Setu Pelz; Namrata Chindarkar; Johannes Urpelainen. 2020. "Energy access for marginalized communities: Evidence from rural North India, 2015–2018." World Development 137, no. : 105204.

Journal article
Published: 09 April 2020 in Energy Policy
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This paper examines the link between farm electricity supply management in the context of Gujarat's feeder segregation program, “Jyotigram Yojana” (JGY), investments in fixed and variable farm inputs, and net farm income per acre using panel data from the 2004-05 and 2011-12 India Human Development Survey. Estimating panel fixed effects regressions, we find that exposure to JGY is associated with substitution away from diesel pumps, an increase in tubewell ownership, and greater likelihood of irrigating with tubewells. Further, there a positive and statistically significant correlation between JGY exposure and per acre cost of purchased water for irrigation. Consequently, we find a negative correlation between JGY exposure and net farm income per acre. We conclude that in the short-to-medium term concomitant increase in irrigation costs can negate the gains from more reliable but rationed farm electricity. Simultaneous policy measures alongside feeder segregation are thus needed to ensure affordable irrigation and subsequently farmers' welfare.

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Namrata Chindarkar; Yvonne Jie Chen; Shilpa Sathe. Link between farm electricity supply management, farm investments, and farm incomes - Evidence from India. Energy Policy 2020, 141, 111407 .

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Namrata Chindarkar, Yvonne Jie Chen, Shilpa Sathe. Link between farm electricity supply management, farm investments, and farm incomes - Evidence from India. Energy Policy. 2020; 141 ():111407.

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Namrata Chindarkar; Yvonne Jie Chen; Shilpa Sathe. 2020. "Link between farm electricity supply management, farm investments, and farm incomes - Evidence from India." Energy Policy 141, no. : 111407.

Journal article
Published: 15 November 2019 in World Development
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The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme aims to provide food supplementation, immunization, health check-ups, and early childhood education to children under the age of six years. There is mounting evidence that links poverty, undernutrition, and lack of stimulation at early ages with cognitive and economic disadvantages later in life. Furthermore, early childhood nutritional, educational, and health interventions are associated with human capital gains in developing countries. In this paper, we investigate the medium-term impact of ICDS services received in early childhood on subsequent reading and arithmetic achievement among children in the ages of eight to 11 in India. There are no nationwide studies that investigate the impact of ICDS on cognitive outcomes. Utilizing data from the two waves of the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) and applying propensity score matching, we find that ICDS has a positive impact on cognitive achievement, primarily for girls and children in low-income families. Since the influence of ICDS intervention is observed for these groups, we believe that the ICDS plays a critical role in reducing gender and income-related gaps in cognitive achievement in India.

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Kriti Vikram; Namrata Chindarkar. Bridging the gaps in cognitive achievement in India: The crucial role of the integrated child development services in early childhood. World Development 2019, 127, 104697 .

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Kriti Vikram, Namrata Chindarkar. Bridging the gaps in cognitive achievement in India: The crucial role of the integrated child development services in early childhood. World Development. 2019; 127 ():104697.

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Kriti Vikram; Namrata Chindarkar. 2019. "Bridging the gaps in cognitive achievement in India: The crucial role of the integrated child development services in early childhood." World Development 127, no. : 104697.

Journal article
Published: 19 June 2019 in Public Administration and Development
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Nihit Goyal; Michael Howlett; Namrata Chindarkar. Who coupled which stream(s)? Policy entrepreneurship and innovation in the energy–water nexus in Gujarat, India. Public Administration and Development 2019, 40, 49 -64.

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Nihit Goyal, Michael Howlett, Namrata Chindarkar. Who coupled which stream(s)? Policy entrepreneurship and innovation in the energy–water nexus in Gujarat, India. Public Administration and Development. 2019; 40 (1):49-64.

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Nihit Goyal; Michael Howlett; Namrata Chindarkar. 2019. "Who coupled which stream(s)? Policy entrepreneurship and innovation in the energy–water nexus in Gujarat, India." Public Administration and Development 40, no. 1: 49-64.

Journal article
Published: 03 June 2019 in Energy Economics
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Although well-designed consumer electricity pricing can improve access, contribute to higher metering, increase penetration of energy efficient technologies, limit extent of the rebound effect, and influence viability of electricity distribution utilities in India, there has been no comprehensive, policy-relevant assessment of price elasticities of electricity demand in the country. The objective of this study is to estimate price elasticities of residential electricity consumption and disaggregate them by state, rural and urban residence, and income categories to provide evidence for electricity tariff setting in India. We combine survey data from five rounds of nationally-representative household consumption expenditure surveys covering the period 2005-2012 with administrative data on electricity deficit. We improve on methods applied in previous studies by estimating price elasticities using a quadratic form to account for constraints in electricity supply. We find that while the average price elasticity at the national level is -0.39 (95% confidence interval: -0.46, -0.31), it varies significantly by state, rural/urban residence, and income categories. Our results indicate that a “one ‘price’ fits all” policy may not be an effective approach to electricity pricing in India and a data-driven and evidence-informed understanding of heterogeneities in price elasticities can better inform residential electricity tariff design in the country.

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Namrata Chindarkar; Nihit Goyal. One price doesn't fit all: An examination of heterogeneity in price elasticity of residential electricity in India. Energy Economics 2019, 81, 765 -778.

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Namrata Chindarkar, Nihit Goyal. One price doesn't fit all: An examination of heterogeneity in price elasticity of residential electricity in India. Energy Economics. 2019; 81 ():765-778.

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Namrata Chindarkar; Nihit Goyal. 2019. "One price doesn't fit all: An examination of heterogeneity in price elasticity of residential electricity in India." Energy Economics 81, no. : 765-778.

Articles
Published: 01 May 2019 in The Journal of Development Studies
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In this article, we empirically test the sustainability of women’s empowerment using representative and rich individual-level panel data from India for the years 2004−5 and 2011−12. Sustainability is defined in terms of durability (whether empowerment is carried forward or continues in the long run) and diffusion (whether empowerment has positive spillover effects). A domain-based framework is used to capture the multidimensional nature of empowerment. In terms of durability, we find that the majority of the women remained empowered over time. The baseline characteristics that determine empowerment durability are (1) individual capabilities such as age, education, and wage work, (2) asset endowment, and (3) opportunity structure such as access to water, electricity, and owning a toilet. Additionally, we find that a change in collective assets over time is positively and significantly correlated with empowerment durability. Finally, we observe that empowerment has a significant diffusion effect from empowered women to other women in the same household as well as to women who do not co-reside but share family ties. These findings imply that empowerment is dynamic and the social benefit of empowering women appears considerably higher than what has been previously estimated when its long-term effects are considered.

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Sonia Akter; Namrata Chindarkar. An Empirical Examination of Sustainability of Women’s Empowerment Using Panel Data from India. The Journal of Development Studies 2019, 56, 890 -906.

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Sonia Akter, Namrata Chindarkar. An Empirical Examination of Sustainability of Women’s Empowerment Using Panel Data from India. The Journal of Development Studies. 2019; 56 (5):890-906.

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Sonia Akter; Namrata Chindarkar. 2019. "An Empirical Examination of Sustainability of Women’s Empowerment Using Panel Data from India." The Journal of Development Studies 56, no. 5: 890-906.

Comparative study
Published: 19 February 2019 in Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
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Reliable basic infrastructure, particularly electricity, is a critical enabling factor in improving health systems and consequently achieving the health sustainable development goals (SDGs). Yet, there is no systematic and rigorous study examining the effect of reliable electricity on health systems in a developing country context. In this study, we examine the effect of Jyotigram Yojana (JGY), a rural electrification program providing 24-h electricity to rural non-agricultural users in Gujarat, India, on core components of health systems including health facilities, health information, and health services utilization. We match data from the District Level Household and Facility Survey (DLHS-II and DLHS-III) and administrative data from electricity distribution companies on JGY implementation. Matching survey data with administrative data allows us to precisely identify the relevant sample from Gujarat for our data analysis. We then apply a difference-in-differences framework to address potential bias in JGY implementation by comparing the sample from Gujarat (treatment group) with that from Maharashtra (control group). Our key independent variable is a dummy indicating JGY implementation, which operationalizes access to reliable electricity. It takes value 1 if the PHC/eligible woman/child is located or residing in the state of Gujarat and 0 if located or residing in the state of Maharashtra. Our outcome variables cover three core components of health systems—health facilities, health information, and child and maternal health services utilization. Each outcome is a binary variable. We therefore estimate probit models with appropriate control variables. We find that JGY implementation significantly improved the operational capacity of health facilities, in particular primary health centers (PHCs), by increasing the availability and functionality of a wide range of essential devices and equipment. JGY also significantly increased access to health information through television. Further, JGY increased utilization of health services; in particular, it increased the probability of children receiving critical vaccinations and pregnant women receiving antenatal care. Our results are robust to alternate specifications and analysis using alternate data. Reliable electricity can be an effective tool in improving core components of health systems. In addition to targeting direct factors within the health systems such as health workforce and health financing, investments in supporting infrastructure are warranted to achieve the health SDGs.

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Yvonne Jie Chen; Namrata Chindarkar; Yun Xiao. Effect of reliable electricity on health facilities, health information, and child and maternal health services utilization: evidence from rural Gujarat, India. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition 2019, 38, 7 .

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Yvonne Jie Chen, Namrata Chindarkar, Yun Xiao. Effect of reliable electricity on health facilities, health information, and child and maternal health services utilization: evidence from rural Gujarat, India. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition. 2019; 38 (1):7.

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Yvonne Jie Chen; Namrata Chindarkar; Yun Xiao. 2019. "Effect of reliable electricity on health facilities, health information, and child and maternal health services utilization: evidence from rural Gujarat, India." Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition 38, no. 1: 7.

Original article
Published: 05 January 2019 in Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies
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A commonly applied policy to India's ongoing depletion of groundwater is feeder separation. Introduced in Gujarat as the Jyotigram Yojana (JGY) scheme, it provides a separate and rationed electricity supply to farmers and an unrationed power supply to non‐agricultural users. JGY is claimed to increase groundwater storage. By using Gujarat district‐level data from 1996 to 2011 and by separately applying difference‐in‐differences and Bayesian regressions, we find that groundwater storage has continued to decrease with JGY. We contend that our empirical results show that JGY has been implemented without adequate consideration of (1) a publication bias whereby researchers have a greater likelihood of having their results published if they are statistically significant and show a positive outcome and (2) a ‘barrier’ effect such that communicating evidence across science and policy divides means that evidence may not be accepted, even when true, and this limits policy advice and options.

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Namrata Chindarkar; R. Quentin Grafton. India's depleting groundwater: When science meets policy. Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies 2019, 6, 108 -124.

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Namrata Chindarkar, R. Quentin Grafton. India's depleting groundwater: When science meets policy. Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies. 2019; 6 (1):108-124.

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Namrata Chindarkar; R. Quentin Grafton. 2019. "India's depleting groundwater: When science meets policy." Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies 6, no. 1: 108-124.

Journal article
Published: 12 December 2018 in Social Science Research
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We propose a conceptual framework to examine the association between mothers' vulnerability to intimate partner violence (IPV) and children's human capital. An important contribution of our framework is that it uses multiple dimensions of human capital and identifies several pathways through which the negative associations of IPV translate to human capital deficits. The conceptual framework is empirically tested using a large-scale representative child-level dataset from India that includes two dimensions of children's human capital – traditional school-based measures of educational attainment, and standardized reading and arithmetic test scores reflecting cognitive ability. Additionally, our study is the first to use an indirect measure of IPV which aims to overcome underreporting bias associated with direct questioning based IPV measures. The results show significant negative correlation between mothers' vulnerability to IPV and children's human capital. The negative association is more pronounced and robust for cognitive outcomes as opposed to the commonly used school-based measures of human capital. As predicted by our conceptual framework, the negative associations are mediated by mothers' poor health and disruption of home environment. We find strong evidence of IPV-exposed children being more likely to experience corporal punishment at school reflecting signs of externalizing behavior. The indirect measure of IPV stands the test of multiple validity and robustness checks.

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Sonia Akter; Namrata Chindarkar. The link between mothers' vulnerability to intimate partner violence and Children's human capital. Social Science Research 2018, 78, 187 -202.

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Sonia Akter, Namrata Chindarkar. The link between mothers' vulnerability to intimate partner violence and Children's human capital. Social Science Research. 2018; 78 ():187-202.

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Sonia Akter; Namrata Chindarkar. 2018. "The link between mothers' vulnerability to intimate partner violence and Children's human capital." Social Science Research 78, no. : 187-202.

Research paper
Published: 01 December 2018 in Journal of Happiness Studies
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Coping with unreliable water supply—in terms of quantity and quality—can impose significant costs on households as they are required to spend more resources on coping strategies such as purchasing, storing, treating, pumping, and collecting. Does increased coping cost affect people’s subjective well-being? We answer this question using unique panel data on urban households in the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal from 2001 and 2014. Using previously computed coping cost estimates, we examine the association between total coping cost and both evaluative and hedonic measures of subjective well-being. To understand the underlying mechanisms, we examine the detailed composition of household coping cost and also the correlation between coping cost and time use. We take necessary steps to address potential endogeneity in coping cost and subjective well-being. Our main finding is that increased coping cost is positively correlated with evaluative well-being but not with hedonic well-being. This result is robust to alternate specifications. Exploration of mechanisms suggests that this may be owing to spending on storage tanks and treatment systems, which are likely to be perceived as long-term ‘investments’ that make people more resilient to water insecurity, and not ‘costs’. Further, increased coping cost significantly reduces time spent on collecting water, which may also explain the positive correlation between coping cost and evaluative well-being.

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Namrata Chindarkar; Yvonne Jie Chen; Yogendra Gurung. Subjective Well-Being Effects of Coping Cost: Evidence from Household Water Supply in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Journal of Happiness Studies 2018, 20, 2581 -2608.

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Namrata Chindarkar, Yvonne Jie Chen, Yogendra Gurung. Subjective Well-Being Effects of Coping Cost: Evidence from Household Water Supply in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Journal of Happiness Studies. 2018; 20 (8):2581-2608.

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Namrata Chindarkar; Yvonne Jie Chen; Yogendra Gurung. 2018. "Subjective Well-Being Effects of Coping Cost: Evidence from Household Water Supply in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal." Journal of Happiness Studies 20, no. 8: 2581-2608.

Article
Published: 23 November 2018 in Water Resources Management
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The long-term success of water service reforms depends on sufficient revenues being collected from users to allow access to be extended and quality of service to be maintained, given constraints on the availability of other sources of funding. Financial sustainability will be undermined if a large proportion of users do not pay their water bills. Using household survey data collected around a unique water supply intervention to provide universal piped connections with continuous supply in the city of Nagpur in India, this paper explores the determinants of household water bill payment. We consider the importance of global service improvements and service extension, coping behaviours, specific service quality measures, and behavioural factors affecting decisions, including salience, trust and social norms, as well as external constraints. We find that global service improvements and extensions are strongly associated with bill payment, alongside salience and trust in the utility. Our findings highlight the advantages of integrated, area-wise reform programmes in improving service and achieving financial sustainability.

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Olivia Jensen; Namrata Chindarkar. Sustaining Reforms in Water Service Delivery: the Role of Service Quality, Salience, Trust and Financial Viability. Water Resources Management 2018, 33, 975 -992.

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Olivia Jensen, Namrata Chindarkar. Sustaining Reforms in Water Service Delivery: the Role of Service Quality, Salience, Trust and Financial Viability. Water Resources Management. 2018; 33 (3):975-992.

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Olivia Jensen; Namrata Chindarkar. 2018. "Sustaining Reforms in Water Service Delivery: the Role of Service Quality, Salience, Trust and Financial Viability." Water Resources Management 33, no. 3: 975-992.

Article
Published: 02 October 2018 in Policy Design and Practice
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The primary source of water for most residents of India’s nearly 640,000 villages is a handpump that extracts water from a shallow aquifer and is shared by several households. The handpumps require regular maintenance, given that mud, silt, salinity of groundwater, and usage degrade the moving parts over time. The challenge for state water authorities is to keep up with the operation and maintenance (O&M) of numerous handpumps. State water authorities have, therefore, shifted to contracting out the O&M activities to non-state actors including civil society organizations (CSOs) and private contractors. This study compares handpump O&M service outcomes of a co-management contract between the state water authority of Gujarat, India, and a community-based CSO with that of a standard contract between the state water authority and a private (non-CSO) contractor. We find the quality of handpump repair and maintenance in villages served by the CSO contractor to be better than that in villages served by the private contractor. Repair times for handpumps used by lower caste households are significantly lower in CSO-served villages suggesting that engaging CSOs can bring about equity in access to water. We also find that service quality significantly reduces the time spent collecting water thus increasing the overall welfare of rural households. We conclude that innovative contractual relationships such as co-management contracts between states and CSOs can prove to be an effective tool in providing, managing, and expanding public services, and enhancing the welfare of rural households.

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Namrata Chindarkar; Yvonne J. Chen; Dennis Wichelns. Government-civil society co-management contracts for rural water services: lessons from India. Policy Design and Practice 2018, 1, 269 -280.

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Namrata Chindarkar, Yvonne J. Chen, Dennis Wichelns. Government-civil society co-management contracts for rural water services: lessons from India. Policy Design and Practice. 2018; 1 (4):269-280.

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Namrata Chindarkar; Yvonne J. Chen; Dennis Wichelns. 2018. "Government-civil society co-management contracts for rural water services: lessons from India." Policy Design and Practice 1, no. 4: 269-280.

Commentary
Published: 09 May 2018 in Sustainability
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In this paper, we posit that sustainability warrants explicit recognition in the teaching of basic principles of economics. The conventional exposition of conceptual and analytic frameworks in basic principles in almost all standard economics textbooks overlooks at least two basic flaws. The first of these concerns the collection of residual externalities that exist without being internalized in market transactions and hence fall outside the calculus of national income accounting. For example, not all energy resource prices capture the entirety of the damages inflicted on natural ecosystems. The cumulus of residual externalities threatens the feasibility of sustainability. The second flaw is the absence of sustainability as a necessary condition in the fundamental benchmark of perfect competition (PC). Sustainability, when explicitly introduced in the PC benchmark, results in significant changes to conceptual premises in economics. The most significant of such changes concerns the axiomatic differentiation between “goods” and “bads”.

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Namrata Chindarkar; Dodo J. Thampapillai. Rethinking Teaching of Basic Principles of Economics from a Sustainability Perspective. Sustainability 2018, 10, 1486 .

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Namrata Chindarkar, Dodo J. Thampapillai. Rethinking Teaching of Basic Principles of Economics from a Sustainability Perspective. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (5):1486.

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Namrata Chindarkar; Dodo J. Thampapillai. 2018. "Rethinking Teaching of Basic Principles of Economics from a Sustainability Perspective." Sustainability 10, no. 5: 1486.

Preprint
Published: 19 April 2017 in SSRN Electronic Journal
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Chang Yee Kwan; Yvonne Jie Chen; Namrata Chindarkar; Dodo Jesuthason Thampapillai. Reducing Information Asymmetry and Enhancing Economic Literacy in Principles Courses. SSRN Electronic Journal 2017, 1 .

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Chang Yee Kwan, Yvonne Jie Chen, Namrata Chindarkar, Dodo Jesuthason Thampapillai. Reducing Information Asymmetry and Enhancing Economic Literacy in Principles Courses. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2017; ():1.

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Chang Yee Kwan; Yvonne Jie Chen; Namrata Chindarkar; Dodo Jesuthason Thampapillai. 2017. "Reducing Information Asymmetry and Enhancing Economic Literacy in Principles Courses." SSRN Electronic Journal , no. : 1.

Article
Published: 15 February 2017 in Public Administration and Development
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Drawing upon existing theories, this article argues that good policy design requires two enabling conditions—an optimal design space that balances political and technical goals, and policy capacity that includes organizational and analytical capacity to carry out the implementation. The case of Gujarat's unique ‘Jyotigram Yojana’ (JGY) is used to illustrate how the policy design process operates in the context of a particularly challenging issue of rural electrification. Our analysis suggests that the design process and implementation of JGY were as much problem-driven as it was politically motivated. A top-down approach favored the conception and implementation of JGY and enabled the state government of Gujarat to effectively leverage its financial, technical, and administrative capacity. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Namrata Chindarkar. Beyond Power Politics: Evaluating the Policy Design Process of Rural Electrification in Gujarat, India. Public Administration and Development 2017, 37, 28 -39.

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Namrata Chindarkar. Beyond Power Politics: Evaluating the Policy Design Process of Rural Electrification in Gujarat, India. Public Administration and Development. 2017; 37 (1):28-39.

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Namrata Chindarkar. 2017. "Beyond Power Politics: Evaluating the Policy Design Process of Rural Electrification in Gujarat, India." Public Administration and Development 37, no. 1: 28-39.

Journal article
Published: 15 February 2017 in Public Administration and Development
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Namrata Chindarkar; Michael Howlett; M Ramesh. Introduction to the Special Issue: “Conceptualizing Effective Social Policy Design: Design Spaces and Capacity Challenges”. Public Administration and Development 2017, 37, 3 -14.

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Namrata Chindarkar, Michael Howlett, M Ramesh. Introduction to the Special Issue: “Conceptualizing Effective Social Policy Design: Design Spaces and Capacity Challenges”. Public Administration and Development. 2017; 37 (1):3-14.

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Namrata Chindarkar; Michael Howlett; M Ramesh. 2017. "Introduction to the Special Issue: “Conceptualizing Effective Social Policy Design: Design Spaces and Capacity Challenges”." Public Administration and Development 37, no. 1: 3-14.

Preprint
Published: 01 January 2017 in SSRN Electronic Journal
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Dodo Jesuthason Thampapillai; Yvonne Jie Chen; Namrata Chindarkar; Chang Yee Kwan. Imperfect Information in a Studentts Learning of Economics. SSRN Electronic Journal 2017, 1 .

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Dodo Jesuthason Thampapillai, Yvonne Jie Chen, Namrata Chindarkar, Chang Yee Kwan. Imperfect Information in a Studentts Learning of Economics. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2017; ():1.

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Dodo Jesuthason Thampapillai; Yvonne Jie Chen; Namrata Chindarkar; Chang Yee Kwan. 2017. "Imperfect Information in a Studentts Learning of Economics." SSRN Electronic Journal , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 28 December 2016 in Development Policy Review
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Using primary survey data collected in two sub-districts of Gujarat, India, on a unique programme that trains rural women with low human capital to repair village water handpumps, we examine the effect of skills training on their socioeconomic outcomes. We find that participating in the training programme significantly increases the probability of being employed outside household farms and women's contribution to household income in the lean season. Further, we find that programme participants spend more on female-favoured consumption goods and have a greater say in household spending decisions, though only from the women's perspective and not husbands’ or adult sons’ perspective. Consequently, providing skills training, even for part-time employment, can have positive effects on rural women's overall socioeconomic status.

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Yvonne Jie Chen; Namrata Chindarkar. The Value of Skills - Raising the Socioeconomic Status of Rural Women in India. Development Policy Review 2016, 35, 229 -261.

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Yvonne Jie Chen, Namrata Chindarkar. The Value of Skills - Raising the Socioeconomic Status of Rural Women in India. Development Policy Review. 2016; 35 (2):229-261.

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Yvonne Jie Chen; Namrata Chindarkar. 2016. "The Value of Skills - Raising the Socioeconomic Status of Rural Women in India." Development Policy Review 35, no. 2: 229-261.

Preprint
Published: 01 January 2016 in SSRN Electronic Journal
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We study the effect of a unique electrification upgradation program, Jyotigram Yojana (JGY), in India on child vaccination rate. We match precise JGY rollout data with the third wave of the Reproductive and Child Health Survey (DLHS-III).We find that higher program exposure, measured by percentage of villages that implemented the JGY program in a district, leads to higher probability of receiving a wide range of basic child vaccines. An examination of underlying mechanisms indicates that electrification upgradation program increases vaccination rate by improving health service delivery at local primary healthcare facilities and improving access to health related information through television.

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Yvonne Jie Chen; Namrata Chindarkar; Yun Xiao. Increasing Child Immunization Through Uninterrupted Power. SSRN Electronic Journal 2016, 1 .

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Yvonne Jie Chen, Namrata Chindarkar, Yun Xiao. Increasing Child Immunization Through Uninterrupted Power. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2016; ():1.

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Yvonne Jie Chen; Namrata Chindarkar; Yun Xiao. 2016. "Increasing Child Immunization Through Uninterrupted Power." SSRN Electronic Journal , no. : 1.