My academic research projects
- By Deepa Krishnan These days I am enjoying my forays into academic research. Economic Times The first research project I did was on the impact of demonetization on families living in slums. It got significant coverage in the Economic Times, trending as Top News on their website. It was also in the Top 10 daily list among the articles on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). For a rookie researcher, this is very encouraging! The second research project (group photo below) is about the economic rationale for giving legal title to slum families. In this photo, you can see our field researchers are being trained in how to collect data. They are college students, who live in low-income/slum neighbourhoods; so they have access to the types of families we want to interviw. Students who live in different wards of Mumbai These research projects are part of my "Earn while you Learn" scheme for students. Data collection doesn't interfere with college lectures, and is the ...