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Can We Measure Gendered Inflation? A Methodological Framework for a Household Provisioning Price Index Using India’s CPI 2024 Series

28 May 2026, Version 1
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Abstract

Standard Consumer Price Indices treat the household as a single economic agent, ignoring which member manages each expenditure category. This paper proposes and demonstrates a methodology for constructing a Household Provisioning Price Index for Women (W-CPI) that weights categories by management responsibility rather than physical consumption, and applies it to India’s newly released CPI 2024 series.

Keywords

CPI
Gendered Inflation
Economics

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May 28, 2026 Version 1

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DOI

10.33774/coe-2026-3bt9v
D O I: 10.33774/coe-2026-3bt9v [opens in a new tab]

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