Gendered Differences in the Causes and Consequences of Migration: Experimental Evidence from India and the United Arab Emirates

Awardees

Nikhar Gaikwad
Assistant Professor of Political Science

This pilot project designs and evaluates the impact of skills training and certification on recruitment of low-skilled labor migrants from a virtually untapped international migration corridor- North-Eastern India to the United Arab Emirate- focusing particularly on women. The researchers seek to understand whether the act of migrating and the capital that follows has the potential of altering migrants and their communities' welfare in terms of their economic behavior, policy preference, socio-political engagement, intra-household bargaining, and tolerance levels.