Ashish Sedai on Water, Electricity and Female Labor Force Participation
Ideas of India · Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Show Notes
This episode is the fifth in a miniseries of weekly short episodes featuring young scholars entering the academic job market who discuss their latest research. In this episode, Shruti talks with Ashish Sedai about his job market paper, "Piped Water: Welfare and Empowerment: Empirical Evidence From a Gendered Analysis in India." They discuss the importance of indoor piped drinking water and its relevance to Indian women's participation in the labor force. Sedai is a Ph.D. candidate the Department of Economics at Colorado State University. His research focuses on how economic opportunities are generated and distributed in society, as well as the interplay between power and institutions and between economic behavior and the performance of the economy.
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