NO : WP-2017-021 AUTHOR : Sudha Narayanan, Nicolas Gerber, Udayan Rathore, Karthikeya Naraparaju TITLE : Can social safety nets protect public health? The effect of India’s workfare and foodgrain subsidy programmes on anaemia ABSTRACT : Can large-scale social safety nets be nutrition sensitive even if they do not explicitly incorporate health […]
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IGIDR Working Paper:Differential Impacts of Currency Undervaluation on Growth and Exports in Natural Resource vs. Manufacturing Exporting Countries
NO : WP-2016-023 AUTHOR : Sanika Sulochani Ramanayake & Keun Lee TITLE : Differential Impacts of Currency Undervaluation on Growth and Exports in Natural Resource vs. Manufacturing Exporting Countries ABSTRACT : In the existing literature, we find a huge debate on the impact of exchange rate undervaluation (depreciation) on growth […]
IGIDR Working paper:Household Expenditure on Higher Education in India: What do we know & What do recent data have to say?
NO : WP-2016-030 AUTHOR :S Chandrasekhar, P. Geetha Rani, Soham Sahoo TITLE : Household Expenditure on Higher Education in India: What do we know & What do recent data have to say? ABSTRACT : We analyse data from two recent NSSO surveys to provide estimates of expenditure on higher education […]
IGIDR Working Paper:Impact of India’s demonetization on domestic agricultural markets
NO : WP-2017-023 AUTHOR : Nidhi Aggarwal and Sudha Narayanan TITLE : Impact of India’s demonetization on domestic agricultural markets ABSTRACT : In this paper we estimate the impact on domestic trade in agricultural commodities of India’s demonetization exercise that invalidated 86% of the currency in circulation. Using data on arrivals and […]
IGIDR Working Paper:Income Generation and Inequality in India’s Agricultural Sector: The Consequences of Land Fragmentation
NO : WP-2016-028 AUTHOR : Sanjoy Chakravorty, S Chandrasekhar, Karthikeya Naraparaju TITLE : Income Generation and Inequality in India’s Agricultural Sector: The Consequences of Land Fragmentation ABSTRACT : This paper is a contribution to understanding income generation and inequality in India’s agricultural sector. We analyse the National Sample Surveys of […]
IGIDR WORKING PAPER:News, Noise and Indian Business Cycle
NO : WP-2019-010 AUTHOR : Ashima Goyal and Abhishek Kumar TITLE : News, Noise and Indian Business Cycle ABSTRACT : New Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models with various specifications of technology, markup and interest rate shocks are estimated with Indian data using Kalman filter based pure and Bayesian likelihood […]
IGIDR Working Paper:Portfolio Composition and Valuation Effects in Emerging Market Economies
NO : WP-2018-018 AUTHOR : Ashima Goyal and Vaishnavi Sharma TITLE : Portfolio Composition and Valuation Effects in Emerging Market Economies ABSTRACT : The increase in cross-border assets and liabilities of nations with globalization, implies small asset price and currency movements create large wealth changes. The national net external position is increasingly driven […]
IGIDR Working Paper:Regulatory responsiveness in India: A normative and empirical framework for assessment
NO : WP-2016-025 AUTHOR : Anirudh Burman and Bhargavi Zaveri TITLE : Regulatory responsiveness in India: A normative and empirical framework for assessment ABSTRACT : This paper seeks to measure the extent to which Indian regulators are responsive in the performance of their functions. The paper focuses on one function […]
IGIDR Working Paper:Short-term Migration in Rural India: The Impact of Nature and Extent of Participation in Agriculture
NO : WP-2018-016 AUTHOR : S Chandrasekhar and Soham Sahoo TITLE : Short-term Migration in Rural India: The Impact of Nature and Extent of Participation in Agriculture ABSTRACT : We analyse a nationally representative data set from India for the year 2013 in order to provide evidence on how short term migration is […]
IGIDR Working Paper:SOCIAL REWARDS AND THE DESIGN OF VOLUNTARY INCENTIVE MECHANISM FOR BIODIVERSITY PROTECTION ON FARMLAND
NO : WP-2018-006 AUTHOR : Rupayan Pal, Ada Wossink, and Prasenjit Banerjee TITLE : SOCIAL REWARDS AND THE DESIGN OF VOLUNTARY INCENTIVE MECHANISM FOR BIODIVERSITY PROTECTION ON FARMLAND ABSTRACT : We examine how endogenous social preferences could affect economic incentive design to encourage biodiversity protection on private land. A ‘green’ […]
