Since its inception in December 2017, the NCAER National Data Innovation Centre has been promoting methodological research in data collection for strengthening India’s data ecosystem. As part of NDIC’s mandate to build a community of innovators in the data sphere, student-faculty paired teams are awarded small grants every year to develop and test innovative data collection strategies and alternative measurement approaches on topics relevant to NDIC’s research goals. The final reports submitted by these student grantees for the years 2018-19 and 2019-20 can be accessed here.

Tagat, Anirudh, Özmen, Mehmet & Trivedi, Pushpa L “Consumer Payments Survey of India: A Closer Look at Household Finances and Payment Instruments”
Student Grantee Report Number 01, NCAER National Data Innovation Centre, New Delhi.
October 2019

Anuvinda, P. “Methodological Explorations Based on an Experimental Study Conducted on Adolescents in Delhi”
Student Grantee Report Number 02, NCAER National Data Innovation Centre, New Delhi.
October 2019

Chakraborty, Monalisha & Mukherjee, Subrata “Migration, Gender Disparity, and Child Well-Being”
Student Grantee Report Number 03, NCAER National Data Innovation Centre, New Delhi.
November 2019

Ayyangar, Srikrishna, Sudheer, Rathan, Raj, Rohan, Mathews, Nelson, Salvi, Aishwarya, Mukundan, Mythreyi, Rai, Aditya Narayan & Jain
Siddhant “ Microcredit and Gender Bias: Evidence from Tamil Nadu”
Student Grantee Report Number 04, NCAER National Data Innovation Centre, New Delhi.
March 2020

Shree Saha and Sudha Narayanan “A Simplified Measure of Nutritional Empowerment”
Student Grantee Report Number 05, NCAER National Data Innovation Centre, New Delhi.
July 2020

Azharuddin Akhtar “Valuation of Health under State-Dependence: A Study of Cancer”
Student Grantee Report Number 06, NCAER National Data Innovation Centre, New Delhi.
October 2021