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ZHCES organises a talk by Dr. Tanika Chakraborty

ZHCES organises a talk by Dr. Tanika Chakraborty

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ZHCES organises a talk by Dr. Tanika Chakraborty
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Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies
School of Social Sciences

Seminar Series

Women, Violence and Work: Threat of Sexual Violence and Women's Decision to Work

Dr. Tanika Chakraborty
Associate Professor, IIM Calcutta
Research Fellow, IZA Bonn
Research Affiliate, CESifo Munich

About the Speaker: Tanika is an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Formerly, she worked at DIW, Berlin, and at theIndian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, after completing her PhD in Economics from Washington University, St Louis. She is a Fellow at Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Bonn, CESifo Munich and the Global Labor Organization. Tanika’s research interests span a wide range of issues in Labor and Development Economics.

Abstract:  The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of economic development experienced in the previous decade. We investigate the extent to which the low workforce participation of women can be explained by growing instances of officially reported crimes against women. For causal identification, we employ a fixed effects strategy using district-level panel data between 2004-2012. To address additional concerns of endogeneity, we exploit state-level regulations in alcohol sale and consumption and provide estimates from two different strategies - an instrumental variable approach and a border-analysis. Our findings indicate that an additional case of sexual violence per ten thousand women in a district decreases a woman's probability of working by 9.4 percentage. The deterrent effect is notably stronger for the sections of women who are either more vulnerable to attacks or likely to bear higher social costs due to the stigma associated with such crimes.

DATE: 29 January, 2021 (Friday)
TIME: 4:30 pm
Link to join online talk: https://meet.google.com/dvu-bcyt-trm

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Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.