Policy
ADRI-LSE study: Public Management in Bihar: Evidence from a survey of more than 1,700 public sector workers (with Ashmita Gupta (ADRI) and Dan Berliner (LSE))
Full report here and as a website version here
The survey included three levels of the administration tasked with policy implementation: district, block, and frontline and was conducted between December 2024 and March 2025, covering all 38 districts of Bihar. A total of 1,767 responses was gathered with 84 from the district-level, 311 from the block-level, and 1372 from the frontline. In addition, 1,000 schools, 893 health (sub-)centers, 957 anganwadis, and 734 offices at district, block, and Gram Panchayat level were surveyed to record infrastructure, staff attendance, and service-specific outputs. All surveys were conducted in-person. To our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive public employee survey of this kind in Bihar.
Media
Events
ADRI-LSE study: Public Management in Bihar: Evidence from a survey of more than 1,700 public sector workers (with Ashmita Gupta (ADRI) and Dan Berliner (LSE))
Full report here and as a website version here
The survey included three levels of the administration tasked with policy implementation: district, block, and frontline and was conducted between December 2024 and March 2025, covering all 38 districts of Bihar. A total of 1,767 responses was gathered with 84 from the district-level, 311 from the block-level, and 1372 from the frontline. In addition, 1,000 schools, 893 health (sub-)centers, 957 anganwadis, and 734 offices at district, block, and Gram Panchayat level were surveyed to record infrastructure, staff attendance, and service-specific outputs. All surveys were conducted in-person. To our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive public employee survey of this kind in Bihar.
Media
- The Indian Express: With Nitish Kumar's exit, Bihar's Sushasan must go beyond top-down (with Ashmita Gupta (ADRI) and Dan Berliner (LSE); available here)
- The Hindu: The World Bank's STARS projects needs an overhaul (with Kiran Bhatty (CPR India); available here)
- Hindustan Times: Is the push for foundational numeracy and literacy pro-poor? (with Abhinav Ghosh (Harvard University); available here)
- The Wire: Why RCTs aren't the simple answer to solving India's learning crisis (with Rakesh K. Rajak; available here)
- Ideas for India: कोविड-19: संकटग्रस्त स्कूली शिक्षा और व्याप्त शैक्षणिक विषमता में अप्रत्याशित वृद्धि [COVID-19: Unprecedented increase of the schooling crisis and prevailing educational disparity] (with Abhishek Anand; available here)
Events
- Bihar Public Policy Days (2-3 March 2026) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
