India, Jan. 22 -- It may be difficult to imagine that the humble "anganwadi", the grassroots institution at the base of the Integrated Child Development Services scheme (ICDS), could have any role in addressing India's formidable challenge of unemployment. However, two recent studies, Employment In India (Oxford University Press, 2019) by Ajit Ghosh and the Annual Status Of Employment Report 2019 (ASER 2019) released earlier this week, together establish a clear causal link between early learning among children in India's vast network of 1.2 million anganwadis and employment outcomes in the labour market over the long term....