Bidisha Barooah

Bidisha Barooah
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Research Fellow
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Bidisha Barooah is a development economist whose career centers on impact evaluations and evidence-based policymaking.
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Innovative study to measure gender norm foundations and change in rural Bangladesh

Gender norms or shared beliefs about what women and men ought to do in a particular social context determine how they interact with each other. A critical shift away from regressive gender norms is…

Five lessons from our Transparent, Reproducible, and Ethical Evidence (TREE) reviews

We have been consolidating our efforts to develop stronger systems for producing transparent, reproducible, and ethical evidence (TREE). We have emphasized asking ourselves the right questions at the…

A framework for examining women’s economic empowerment in collective enterprises

Swashakt, launched with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2020, has now reached more than 6900 women across 480 villages in 10 Indian states who have become a part of farm or non…

It’s time to take note of the Self Help Groups’ potential

As the world is scrambling for resources to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak, India is fortunate to have a motivated cadre of women assisting the fight at the community-level. Rightfully called the …

Phone surveys in developing countries need an abundance of caution

Subha Mani and Bidisha Barooah write about the need for researchers to exercise an abundance of caution before conducting phone surveys to collect data during this global pandemic. In this blog, they…