Hema Swaminathan

Hema Swaminathan is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Public Policy. Her broad interests are in the areas of poverty and inequality using a gender perspective. Professor Swaminathan’s recent and ongoing research focuses on wealth and asset distribution between men and women and its implications for welfare outcomes. She is also interested in understanding the links between economic growth and women’s labour supply in India. Some of her work explores the effect of policy initiatives on health outcomes.

SELECT JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (2010-2018)

Do men and women estimate property values differently? 2018. World Development, 107 pp 75-86 (with Carmen Diana Deere, Zachary Catanzarite, Cheryl Doss, Suchitra JY, William Baah-Boateng and Louis Boakye-Yiadom)

Assets and Shocks: Gendered Analysis from Ecuador, Ghana and Karnataka, India. 2018. Canadian Journal of Development Studies 39:1, pp 1-18 (with Carmen Diana Deere, Cheryl Doss, Abena Oduro, Suchitra JY and William Baah-Boateng)

The effect of paid maternity leave on early childhood growth in low and middle income countries. 2017 BMJ Global Health. pp: 1-11 (with Deepa Jahagirdar, Sam Harper, Jody Heymann, Arnab Mukherji, and Arijit Nandi)

Economic Development and Female Labor Force Participation in India. 2016. Feminist Economics, 22 pp: 168-195 (with Rahul Lahoti).

Not in Her Name: Women’s Property Ownership In India 2016. Economic and Political Weekly, L1, pp: 17-19 (with Rahul Lahoti and Suchitra JY).

Gender Asset and Wealth Gaps. 2014. Development, 57 pp: 400-409 (with Cheryl Doss, Carmen Diana Deere, and Abena Oduro)

Moving from the Household to the Individual: Multidimensional Poverty Analysis. 2014. World Development, 59 pp: 71-80. (with Ramya Vijaya and Rahul Lahoti)

Property rights and the gender distribution of wealth in Ecuador, Ghana and India. 2013. Journal of Economic Inequality, 11 pp: 249-265. (with Carmen Diana Deere, Abena Oduro, and Cheryl Doss)

Gender Asset and Wealth Gaps: Evidence from Karnataka. 2012. Economic and Political Weekly. XLVII (35) pp: 59-67. (with Rahul Lahoti and Suchitra JY) (Study results were cited by Vice President Hamid Ansari in a speech in 2011)

Malnourished in Slums? Evidence from India, 2012. American Journal of Public Health, 102 (7) pp: 1329-1335. (with Arnab Mukherji)

Impact of Access to Credit on Labor Allocation Patterns in Malawi 2010. World Development, 38 (4) pp: 555-566. (with Jill Findeis and Rodrigo Salcedo DuBois)

UNDER REVIEW

Women, Assets, and the Accumulation of Savings: A Comparative Analysis of Ecuador, Ghana and India, Under Review, (with Zachary Catanzarite, Carmen Diana Deere, Cheryl Doss, Abena Oduro, and Suchitra JY)

Gendered Paths to Asset Accumulation? Markets, Savings, and Credit in Developing Countries, Under Review, (with Anglade Boaz, Carmen Diana Deere, Cheryl Doss, Abena Oduro, and Suchitra JY)

Seasonal Migration and Feminization of Farm Management: Evidence from India, Under Review, (with S. Chandrasekhar and Soham Sahoo)

WORK IN PROGRESS

Impact of Mahila Samakhya Programme on Women’s Education and Age at First Marriage (with Pragya Bhuwania and Arnab Mukherji)

A Cross Country Perspective on Factors Determining Women’s Property Ownership (with Isis Gaddis and Rahul Lahoti)

Women’s Land Ownership and Agricultural Decision Making: Evidence from Karnataka (with Suchitra JY)

Ties that Bind: Kinship and Female Enterprise Creation in Rural India (with Jeroen Smits, Patrick Vermeulen, and Hemalatha Venkataraman)

Gender Differences in Time Disposition in Rural India (with S. Chandrasekhar)

Women’s Willingness to Work: Evidence from Rural India (with S. Chandrasekhar)