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Siwan Anderson
Dr. Siwan Anderson is a Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia in Canada. She is a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), a fellow of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), an associate of Theoretical Research in Development Economics (ThReD), and a faculty associate at the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA). Dr. Anderson main area of research is micro-level institutions and economic development. Some of her work focuses on the role of gender. Recent projects include studies of rural governments and credit cooperatives in Maharashtra, female property rights, and missing women in developing countries.
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The complexity of female empowerment interventions
In the final post of I4I’s month-long campaign to mark International Women’s Day 2023, Siwan Anderson unpacks the complex dimensions and interactions between measures of female empowerment. She highlights the sobering and unintended perils of policy interventions that aim to increase women’s economic and political empowerment or change gender norms. She urges policymaking to remain mindful of the backlash within families to women’s expanded economic prospects, the benchmarking and transplanting of gender norms from developed countries and measures to build capacity to make political quotas effective
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Political reservation and the quality of governance
Existing evidence suggests that while political reservation for traditionally marginalised groups tilts governance outcomes in favour of those groups, there are non-discernable or negative effects on the overall quality of governance. This column demonstrates that in a divided society like that of village India, where politics is organised along identity lines, reservation could indeed improve overall governance quality.
Property rights, household conflict and suicide in India
Suicide has become the second leading cause of death among young Indians. This column finds that improved inheritance rights for women are associated with an increase in the incidence of suicide among both men and women in India, particularly men. Strengthened position of women alters negotiations within the household resulting in increased family conflict and intense stress for individuals.
India's missing women by age and state
This column presents results of a study that breaks down “missing women” by age across the Indian states. It illustrates that Indian women face the risk of excess mortality at every stage of their lives, and attempts to explain excess female deaths in India after birth.
महिलाओं के सशक्तिकरण संबंधी हस्तक्षेपों की जटिलता
इस लेख में सीवन एंडरसन अंतर्राष्ट्रीय महिला दिवस 2023 के उपलक्ष्य में I4I पर इस महीने चल रहे अभियान के अंतर्गत महिला सशक्तिकरण के उपायों के बीच के जटिल आयामों और अंतर्क्रियाओं को सामने रखती हैं। वे महिलाओं के आर्थिक और राजनीतिक सशक्तिकरण को बढ़ावा देने या लैंगिक मानदंडों को बदलने के उद्देश्य से किये जाने वाले नीतिगत हस्तक्षेपों के गंभीर और अनपेक्षित खतरों पर प्रकाश डालती हैं। वे महिलाओं की विस्तारित आर्थिक संभावनाओं, विकसित देशों से लैंगिक मानदंडों के बेंचमार्किंग और अनुसरण एवं राजनीतिक कोटा को प्रभावी बनाने के लिए क्षमता निर्माण के उपायों के बारे में परिवारों के प्रतिक्षेप के प्रति सचेत रहने के लिए नीति निर्माण का आग्रह करती हैं।
The impacts of linking NREGA payments to UID. A Study of Maharashtra
This project attempts to measure the impact of Universal Identification (UID)-linked wage payments on corruption in public works projects funded under MNREGA (National Rural Employment Guarantee Act).
Caste dominance in rural India: Cause and effect
Rural India remains a caste-based society. This column explores why caste continues to play such an important role and what the effects are. It argues that trade and agricultural productivity suffer, as well as the functioning of democracy.
Three Nobel Laureates who incited a movement
This year’s Nobel Prize for Economics has been awarded to the trio responsible for revolutionising the field of development economics: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer. In this post, Siwan Anderson discusses their pioneering work and its impact on the lives of millions of poor people across the globe. She contends that this year’s Prize is also a long-awaited acknowledgement of women in the economics profession
