Indian paradox: Rising education, declining womens' employment

Housing Booms, Declining Manufacturing, and Rising Non-Employment

We study the extent to which the U.S. housing boom and subsequent housing bust during the 2000s masked (and then unmasked) the sharp, ongoing decline in the manufacturing sector. We exploit cross-city variation in manufacturing declines and housing booms and jointly estimate their effects on local employment and wages. Between 2000 and 2007, we find that a one standard deviation decrease in man...

Diversity in medical education: the Indian Paradox

A s a country of many ethnic groups and regional variations, the essence of diversity in Indian culture is appropriately reflected in the composition of medical students in any undergraduate training program. Ironically, however, these same diversities that exist in the country’s medical education system are also a major barrier in implementing a uniform curriculum. The areas of concern include...

Declining Trend in Science Education and Research in Indian Universities

Universities are knowledge based organizations whose functions are largely confined to teaching and research. They are designed to operate to discover and disseminate knowledge by possessing significant and relevant expertise in all disciplines. India has a very vast structure of education and its higher education sector is now highly advanced, compared to its neighboring countries. The vast ne...

Transportation and Minority Womens Employment: Insights from New York

The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness

The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women’s declining relative well-being is found across various datasets, measures of subjective wellbei...