Jaai Parasnis

ABSTRACT Using nationally representative district-level data from India for 2014–2019, we examine how economic activity and unemployment jointly influence crime rates. Whilst greater economic activity can reduce crime rates by lowering unemployment and providing more economic opportunities, greater economic activity can increase crime rates by widening social and economic disparities.

We all hold a memory, more powerful than all others, for which we are grateful. It doesn’t have to be an unusual or special memory. It’s simply a happy memory. And when we conjure it, the important part is not to recover the sequence of events that make it, but to relive the feeling we have of the feeling we once had. It could be the feeling, which we thought was long lost, of how our bones were light when we were little.

Despite the progress made towards greater gender equality at work, many women work jobs that they are overqualified for, especially migrant women. On International Women’s Day, Mehtap Akgüç and Jaai Parasnis explain how this double penalty can be overturned. Birth rates are falling and populations are getting older across high-income countries.