Ep 448: Vidya Mahambare, the Rooted Economist

She is not an ivory tower academic but an economist whose deep understanding of society comes from lived experience and endless curiosity. Vidya Mahambare joins Amit Varma in episode 448 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss her life and her learnings.

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Also check out:

1. Vidya Mahambare on Google Scholar, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Great Lakes, Mint and her own website.

2. What Shapes Us? -- Vidya Mahambare's podcast.

3. Closing the income gap -- Vidya Mahambare's column on the five Es.

4. Family structure, education and women's employment in rural India -- Sowmya Dhanaraj and Vidya Mahambare.

5. Male backlash and female guilt: women's employment and intimate partner violence in urban India -- Sowmya Dhanaraj and Vidya Mahambare.

6. Women's challenging commutes in southern India: A case of the metropolitan region of Chennai -- Vidya Mahambare and Sowmya Dhanaraj.

7. Analysing the sentiment-based variation in finance ministers' communication -- Vidya Mahambare, Akash Gupta and Sowmya Dhanaraj.

8. Sowmya Dhanaraj Is Making a Difference — Episode 380 of The Seen and the Unseen.

9. Alice Evans Studies the Great Gender Divergence — Episode 297 of The Seen and the Unseen.