1) Summarising the key issues and debates (like before)
2) Audio guides - which they listen to while reading a paper. I help them assess data, methods, & analysis.
3) Video feedback on their weekly submissions.
@Undercoverhist I'm pretty excited about the audio guides - my latest innovation!
The video feedback is also new for me. Students answer 3 questions every week. These are not compulsory or assessed. I just provide individual feedback via video.
I assumed that rural America is more conservative because small homogenous towns breed narrow-minded thought
But as @_adasgupta points out, in the late 19 + early 20C, left-agrarian movements thrived in the American countryside
What changed?
Irrigation!
Another point that rocked my priors:
“Within rural areas, it is upwardly mobile and affluent individuals that have become conservative in their political preferences and
voting patterns over time”
Again, inconsistent with theories of small-town isolationism.
This is the best persistence paper I’ve read in 2021! HA.
Seriously check it out,
Per Fredriksson & @SatyendraUpta do a phenomenal job of tracing & testing the different causal mechanisms - using a broad range of data sets on FLFP, property rights, & migrants’ attitudes.
Percentage of Indian women who report that they had a say in choose their husband
I used the data from icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/IFSS/… To pre-empt replies, the map template omits disputed regions, & wont let me change the names of Odisha & Uttarakhand
12% in Rajasthan, 15% in UP
Percentage of women who say men eat first
I used the data from icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/IFSS/… To pre-empt replies, the map template omits disputed regions, & wont let me change the names of Odisha & Uttarakhand
46% in Rajasthan, 53% in UP.
Women who practice ghungat/ purdah
Data from ihds.umd.edu To pre-empt replies, the map template omits disputed regions, & wont let me change the names of Odisha & Uttarakhand
95% in Rajasthan, 83% in UP
This is for my forthcoming blog on India's gender divergence
- More sati in C19 Bengal where widows had property rights
- More foeticide & cousin marriage w/ female inheritance in 🇮🇳
- Islamic inheritance rights, high cousin marriage in MENA,
- Women didn't inherit in Europe & LAC so left for work
Property ownership enhances women's autonomy & bargaining power. Where women are dependent on men, they cant leave bad marriages. That's undeniable.
BUT efforts to increase women's inheritance rights seem to backfire in communities that want to preserve assets 4 the male lineage
So I entirely understand why Indian feminists pushed for women's inheritance rights.
But in the Indian context of low female labour force participation & expectations that sons (not daughters) will support parents in old age, parents may prefer to promise assets for sons.