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Inflation Expectations and Keeping Up With the Joneses

NO : WP-2024-018 AUTHOR : Taniya Ghosh and Abhishek Gorsi TITLE :  Inflation Expectations and Keeping Up With the Joneses Abstract The paper analyzes the role of personal income change and social comparisons in ex­plaining the heterogeneity and upward bias in Indian households’ inflation expectations by using repeated cross-sectional data from the Reserve […]

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Access to clean cooking fuel and women outcomes

NO : WP-2024-017 AUTHOR : Bharti Nandwani and Manisha Jain TITLE : Access to clean cooking fuel and women outcomes ABSTRACT : This paper examines the impact of India’s Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), a clean cooking policy that offered free Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) connections to women from economically and socially disadvantaged households, on […]

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