Poulomi Dar Chakrabarti is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University. Based at Harvard University this year as a visiting scholar in the Department of Government, she studies how social identity – ethnicity, class, and particularly social status – shapes political mobilization and redistributive politics.

Pradeep Chhibber is the Professor and Indo-American Community Chair in India Studies at University of California, Berkely. Chhibber studies the politics of India, political parties and party systems. His recent research is on the influence of ideology on party system change, religion and politics, elections and parties, and the politics of development in India.

Evidence on how exposure to early childhood education (ECE) has a sustained effect on Human Capital is inconclusive, particularly in low and middle income countries. This study examines two specific issues in the context of India: (a) to analyse the regional and socioeconomic inequalities in access to and investment in early childhood education and how a household’s socioeconomic position explains such inequalities, (b) to estimate the effect of exposure to early childhood education on children’s later learning outcomes, and how the type and duration of such exposure impact differently.